Long, fun day.. started with a 6AM work call with japan. Very exciting stuff..   Then caught a plane to LA over soem gorgeous mountains

The rest of the day was full of very interesting meetings.. but given that they were work meetings.. nothing I can go into here.. just lots of cool creative stuff.. this is the stuff I love the best about my work..

After work. I met up with some of my good friends from the Colony.. Here are Gadget, Morgan. Johnny V, and Michael. It was so wonderful catching up !

And that was my day… doesn’t sound like much.. but it was really fun and interesting.
I gotta wake up in a6 hours to go do some recording for work.. so I’ll sign off here.. More tomorrow.

Gnite all, Gnite Sam
-me

Folks.. too tired to do a proper blog.. and I have an early (6am) meeting.. but I just had a really fun/cool experience. I just had dinner with Al Gore.. me and 6 other folks sat down and talked about global warming with the king of global warming for about 3 hours . and I gotta say.. I was very impressed. He is a smart and passionate guy.. and he’s really motivated by what’s right for the world…. It was truly inspirational…

I watched Inconvenient Truth this afternoon as a bit of study.. and I have to admit.. it really sucked me in..hIt wasn’t the numbers. It was the raw passion for doing what you think is right.. I was deeply touched with  Gore talked about his son’s near death experience after the accident. We talked tonight  about Sam. and how that’s galvanized me to do the outreach I do..

I’ll reflect on it more tomorrow.. for right now.. I need to sleep…

I’m glad there are folks like Gore in the world

For now.. I’ll post these pictures and sleep..
more tomorrow.. I promise !
Ginte freinds.. gnite Sam !
-me

Sweet day.. Diane woke early to head down to Endicott for our friend Linda’s surprise 50th.. I was down there on Monday and went buy and took Linda flowers which was a sneaky way of getting here to think that Diane wouldn’t be coming down for her birthday.. Ha !

Gabe and I had to be up at smuggs by 8 for a USASA slope style competition.> the two of us are a pretty funny pair in the morning . Neither of us are what you might call ‘morning people’. It’s mostly grunts  and mumbles from both us until we get in the car,,,

We got up there in time.. We registered gabe.. then I took a walk partway up the gap road.. it was really beautiful in the filtered sun.

I got back in time for the start of the competition.. Gabe had a great first run.. .and a
sketchy 2nd run. The first run clinched the day for him.. He came in 1st place !

Before the awards, Paige, the organizer told us about the “Molly Rail Jam” on 3.6th. It’s a fund raiser for a memorial fund set up after 5 year old Molly Rowlee died of cancer in
june 2009. The molly fund helps families who have kids fighting cancer. 

I felt the story deeply in my heart as Paige told us about Molly…   I guess that’s the
way it will always be….

The awards ceremony was over by 2:30.. Gabe took off with Dylan and Family.. I drove Garrett back to the park and ride in Richmond to meet his mom.. then I went home… meditated, then I went for a run with the dogs..

One catch was that my running shoes were packed in my suitcase, and I didn’t want to get them wet.  The only answer I came up with was to run in my old dress shoes.. I got new shoes on  Thursday.. so I thought.. what the heck…   I looked dorky (or more dorky than usual).. but they sure were comfy in the snow !

About 4;30 I left home for the airport. I’m on my way to Las Vegas.. for a meeting..
but more n that tomorrow… for now.

Gnite all, gnite Sam
-me

Sometimes when I’m on the phone I do the strangest thing.. Today during a particularly interesting call I decided to clean off my key ring.. I have one of those huge wads of keys that janitors always seem to carry. The weight of it makes me lean perpetually to the right. I think I have a permanent dent in my leg on that side from carrying it.

First I removed 5 extra metal rings that had been hooked there over the years. The collection allowed me to make my own mini Olympic village

I also found two keys which went to no lock I knew.. How sad, forever separated !

One key I always have.. the key to my 1971 Volkswagen camper “maggie” I sold her in 1981 to a guy from California because it was not made for Vermont Winters.. or Summers for that matter. I wonder if she’s still on the road.   Long may you run, girl !

ps. Freind pete found the following.. . A good comic for engineering week !