We have a very early day tomorrow (starts at 7 AM .. ugh) .. so I’m going to make this quick… We had a good productive day full of brainstorming.. I wish all my days could be this full of thinking… I didn’t get much sleep last night, so it was tough to pry myself out of bed today to run.. I do enjoy running here for some strange reason.. I run around the parking lots of all these half empty malls and offices… I think what makes it fun is that I’ve been doing these same runs for about 20 years.. It’s ugly.. but it’s my ugly. Actually the scenery is not that bad.. once you get out of the city it looks very much like Vermont. The hotels pretty nice.. I think it might be my favorite of the 7 in this black.. ( why Fishkill needs 7 big chain hotels I can’t understand)
Funny thing.. as I ran by the restaurant this morning the alarm went off…
What do you think made that happen ?
THough I was in meetings all day, I did get a chance to see quite a few freinds in the halls of Fishkill. here’s my good friend Bhavna who’s just moved back from 3 years in Switzerland.
And here’s my friend Jeff… … his brain is wired in an interesting way.. I think he may be the person I know who’s best at coming up with counter examples.. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of some of the code my area creates. If you give him an idea.. he’ll either say ‘that will ‘t work’.. or he’ll give you exactly what won’t work about your idea.. He’s also a pretty interesting unit. He wears a medic alert bracelet that says in the event of his imminent demise you should remove his head and put it in liquid nitrogen.. in the hopes that they can revive him many hundreds of years later… Pretty interesting !
I managed to catch a quick beer after work with my friend Sarala… a manager in my old area.. It was good to catch up on the technical and people stories of he area…
Then it was off to dinner at Cafe Aroma.. one of the best restaurants down here.. It was a great time there tonight.. good Italian food and my good friends from the Academy for company. I feel very fortunate to be able to attend events like this.
One interesting interlude tonight was a very spirited conversation between our two interns Chris and Marshea and some of us older folks.. They had some good insights about how to enable new hires to participate in setting strategy. I always think it’s interesting talking across generations I can see myself so clearly in their spot when I was in my early 20’s at IBM.. some things are so different now.. and some things never change. I can tell you one thing. it it’s really freaky to be treated as the ‘old guy’ now..
One bonus tonight was a visit from my good friend Dave. at dinner.. Dave used to be president of the Academy.. now he’s retired. I’ve stayed with Dave and his wife Jean several times in the past year. Tonight, he was kind enough to bring me a few potato guns that I may use as props in a talk I’m giving tomorrow.
After dinner, I had a great call with my dear friend Ruchir.. then went to the grocery store to by pickles for a demo tomorrow.. It’s weird walking around a grocery store at night.. reading the magazine racks… This one reminded me of Sam….
Ahh.. now time for a bath then sleep….
We’re getting to go on a tour of the manufacturing line at 7ish . I’m really excited because I’ve never been through this facility. Hopefully I can get a picture of us in the ‘bunny suits’
OK.. time for sleep.. Hope you all had a good day.. I did . Gnite all.. Gnite Sam, I love you
-me