When he was eight or nine our nephew asked his parents for a Roomba. He was fascinated with robotics. I’ll have to ask him if he has had the chance to ride in a Waymo yet. He works in Manhattan and that city is not quite ready. We are still getting over our Waymo experience in SF.
It felt like the Waymo car saw the four of us standing there. No need to flag it down. There was no one behind the wheel when we unlocked the doors with our app. It was exhilarating watching it stop at red lights, turn ever so carefully, even slow appropriately for the speed bumps. And when the thrill wears off you are free to play with your iPad, stare out the window, even space out if you like. I am so ready for self driving cars.
Because our neighbors were in Italy it was surprising to see their lawn being mowed mysteriously when we walked by last week. Funny thing, it had been pretty dry and the lawn did not really need mowing
We went down to our neighbors for the second half of the Women’s EURO Cup finals. They have air conditioning and get Fox Sports through their YouTube subscription. Spain was up one zero at the half but England scored and threw the match into overtime. No-one scored then so it went to a shootout and England won by a nose. Peggi put a bowl of ice cubes in front of fan tonight as she was boiling water for for our garlic scape pesto dinner. I can’t say it made much of a difference.
We brought the fan down to the basement and played some music. We recorded a few things on Peggi’s phone. We have done that quite a bit but we never go back to listen to them.
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