Another busy day.. not much new .. still confused about my future.. looking for clarity.   I did get a nice break midday when I went to friend Pete’s 25h IBM anniversary. His actual service anniversary was last Summer.. but his bosses.. Zahi and Gopal drove up from NY to take Pete out to lunch in honor of the milestone.. Kerry, Dave H and I got to tag along .. It was really nice. We all told pete stories . I even made a little Pete glossary to translate his highly customized english..

One thing I put together was a set of anagram for ‘peter osler’ .. It’s a pretty good scrabble hand.. eg

The rest of the day was in meetings. I had one bright spot when someone sent me a link to a new article on the front page of EETimes today which was bout my talk last monday. It made me happy because I think this article and the last may get even more engineering folks out doing outreach.

I got home around 6 to find my folks had arrived. It was really nice to see them. It was particulaly nice to have htem up tonight becaue we had a party to make SamStones.. Diane made cheese and choclate fondue.

 

Luke and Gabe were accidentaly dressed the same.. when guys do that.. it’s cool.. when girl’s do that I think it’s a disaster. no ?

Adah liked the chocolate !

We had the bottle of champaign my folks had sent us in Califrornia.. so we used it for a birthday toast for me..

Midway through the night we called Deb and the kids in Chile .. It was great letting them see all their freinds here.

Between us we managed to make a shole 50 pound box of clay into SamStones… Which is great because we were running low.

Diane got soem really beautiful roses from her folks.. I wanted to get a picture of them.. so they can see how nice they are.. and how nice Diane is !

OK my freinds.. time for sleep.. lots to do tomorrow. Nite for now. Nite Sam
-me