We headed to Thomas Edison National Park in the morning, then to the reunion for the afternoon … and the obligatory group photo with one joker.

On the road again, this time for the big family reunion in New Jersey. Huge age range gathering for tomorrow’s main event (these are not the extremes), which should be entertaining.

Last day of our design thinking workshop, one last set of small and giant PostIt Notes to fill out, then a group photo and pitches.

As I walked in to the building, I noticed the university has tagged a bicycle as abandoned, giving the owner 30 days to remove it. “Maria’s” bike has been here for several years and no one has ever even touched the helmet clipped on it.

As part of this design thinking workshop, our team had to conceive a product or business that would help a community, generate a list of executable ideas and then design a prototype. We, ahh, may have gone a little overboard with our app prototype, hacking one together out of styrofoam, cardboard, PostIt Notes and construction paper …

We are hosting a three-day design thinking workshop at the college and I was put on a team. After some exercises to loosen up our brains, we were sent out to interview folks about our core ideas and concerns.

One student we interviewed was very nervous, uncomfortable talking about mental health issues amongst her peer group, and kept shifting her legs around under a table.

The university has a Faculty Learning Community focused on drones. And, while nearly two years after I started working on drone events and issues, I still don’t have my Part 107 Certification, I’m still hanging around the group … because sometimes you get to watch people learn to fly.

One of the local strip malls still has a lot of empty stores.

And Captain Underbite is ever hopeful.