Not much to report today.. I woke early and took Chai for a run.. I really felt Sam out there today.   I got to work on the early side to kick of a 3 day meeting I’ve helped pull together at work. I was really worried about how the meeting would go.. It involves quite a few very bright and very opinionated people. Today was really interesting and.. in a weird day-job kind of way.. really fun. We won’t know for a day or so if we have accomplished our main goals.. but for now.. I was happy. It felt good spending a day staring at a set of complicated technical issues.  We only broke once during the day to get lunch… That’s where I took this stunning photo of me and Vickie.. the queen of the IBM lunchroom. She knows everything about everyone.. I think she can read minds, too.

    After lunch it was back to the meeting for the rest of the day. We worked until about 6 then quit. I had invited the whole gang to come over to the house for dinner tonight.. as  I left work to pick up pizzas for dinner a strong wave of sadness   came over me..   I’d been thinking so hard about work today that I didn’t have time to think of much else all day.  At the first quiet moment I had.. a days worth of backed up sadness caught up with me. The lesson to myself here is to make time at lunch or other times to take a walk and service some of this pent up grief before it builds up..

Anyway.. I made it home about 7 at the same time that about 25 of my friends showed up..

It was really nice having all these folks over. Many of them are close friends of mine who are in town for this meeting. The last time they were all in the house was at Sam’s viewing. It was fun having them all together at the house for a much happier occasion.. The evening was quiet and upbeat .. and passed very quickly… my friend Pete showed up near the end and entertained us with some very fine fiddle playing.. Thanks Pete !

 

 

   I can hardly keep my eyes open right now.. gotta catch some sleep before an early morning resume of the meetings tomorrow morning. Gnite all.. gnite Sam..

 

-jc

 

ps. Max was goofing around with the swap colors feature on my camera and came up with the following picture of our house.. The pattern comes from shadows a tree casts on out house. Pretty freaky.. no ?