Short post tonight as I need to get to sleep. .  I’m still in Rochester.   Not much happened today.. it was sort of a peaceful Midwestern kinda day. I began the day with a short run where I came across this sticker on a tree (I came back late this evening to take of picture of it). Somehow it made me think of Sam’s passing.. not sure of the connection.. but I felt it strongly.

 

One cool thing from breakfast was that they had a juice machine with both orange juice and grape juice.  You may not know the awesome power of that combination… In the Cohn household of my youth the following recipe gave one super strength

½ cup orange juice
½ cup grape juice
stir with a green tinker toy
drink entire cup
gives super strength

We’d drink the stuff then run around like crazy convinced we had superhuman strength and speed.  The recipe was a closely guarded family secret until Billy published it in a cookbook put together by my Moms extended family…   This morning the concoction just made me a little queasy..   Ok.. maybe I had a little super strength.

All in all I had  a very productive day. 

The meetings today had lots of good discussion… It helps to know that no one is armed..

 

As I said last night .. the folks here are the hardest working and easiest going people I’ve ever worked with..    After the meeting we all headed to a local watering hole for some team bonding..

One of our guys. Mike, knew the folks at the next table.. all school principals and teachers. I ended up talking to them about why more girls don’t go into science, math and engineering.. they had some good insights.. mainly everyone says that the messaging around engineering is ‘it’s hard’… rather than ‘it’s ‘fun’ . I’d be interested in anyone else’s view about why girls are a stating away from engineering in record numbers.

 

We left the bar and my friend Bryan and I went to a super market and bought a bunch of cakes and a pie and dropped them off at the local Ronald Macdonald House. I never really noticed RMH before Sam’s passing.. Now I see them in every city I visit. It is such a great organization. They were there for us when we really needed them . It’s a great organization.. check them out at http://www.rmhc.org/rmhc/index.html. We then stopped for another ‘meeting’ in a bar..

 

After that I ended going over to my friends Jeff and Karen’s to say hi. Jeff was my office mate and running buddy when I worked in Hursley England from 1984-86.  He’s always been one of my most important life advisors. Karen was already asleep.. but Jeff and I sat outside and talked about life, family’s, Sam, everything. It was great catching up

 

That’s about it for the day.. More to report tomorrow. Gnite all. Gnite Sam

-me