I’m sitting at JFK airport…now.. seems I’m always sitting at an airport somewhere..
My flight is delayed, I’m hoping to use the time to get this blog in.
My flight is delayed, I’m hoping to use the time to get this blog in.
Lessse… oh yeah. I couldn’t upload any pictures last night.. so here are a few leftovers..
I made a quick stop on the way to Ruchir’s to pick up some ice cream.. and found the convenience store selling oxygen for 8 dollars a can.. You can sell anything !
Dinner at the Puri’s is always wonderful.. Even though it was about 10 at night, the girls. Anika and Isha were still awake !
Rashi and her mom made a delicios Indian dinner, bitter gourd, okra, potatos, dahl, fresh made yoghurt. fresh made puri.. yum !!!!
Our meeting today was at the TJ Watson research center. No matter how many times I go there, I still feel.. like a green new hire when I walk in the building. There are so many brilliant people in that building.. Maybe more than in any other building in the world.. It’s un and really, really really humbling.. I like the layout of the building.. lots of light, lots of windows.. lots of brilliant people talkign to each other in the halls…
lots of cool equipment all over the place (like these two class IV argon lasers.. me want !!!)
Our meetings lasted all day and went pretty well.. good ideas and good discussion.
Afterwords I went around to talk to some of my friends.. alike Al.. who just celebrated his 50th (yes 50th) service anniversary with IBM
Afterwords I went around to talk to some of my friends.. alike Al.. who just celebrated his 50th (yes 50th) service anniversary with IBM
I also spent time with my buddy Jeff… we go waaaaay back..
Around 7 I headed south to JFK.. I was cruising down takonic when I saw a sign to Ardsley.. the place I lived until I was almost 4.. I pulled across 3 lanes of traffic and got off the freeway.
I called my folks to get the address of our old house.. 91 Hiltop Lane… I punched it into the GPS and in a few minutes I was there !!!!!..
It wasn’t as huge as I remember 🙂 .. In fact it was tiny..
I spoke a bit with the folks who lived there .. but the woman seemed to be a bit worried about me poking around. She didn’t think it had been our house, but I called my folks again to confirm.. They let me look in the back yard.. I remember this stone fence here
Here it is from the back
And the side..
I placed a SamStone on the house..
And one on the tree in the front yard..
the guy from the house took me down the street to meet one of the nieghbors whod been there since 1963 when we left. Meet Louann Kelly !She was absolutely great.. She asked me if I was little Johnny Cohn … she remembered our family.. and told me a bunch of stories. The one I remember from being a kid is eating Swedish pancakes in her back yard with powdered sugar.. We still talk about it whenever we eat crepes with my folks.. I gave LouAnn a SamStone
I even called my mom and let them talk to each other . It was very cool
I spent so much time tlaking to her that I got close to missing my flight !.. Speaking of whcih.. I better go check on it.. Talk to you all tomorrow ! Nite .. Nite Sam
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