Sitting at the BTV airport waiting for my bag,,,,   Great trip to Rochester.. It was like going back in time.. I saw  so friends I’ve known for almost 30 years !

This morning was the 2nd day of the centennial celebration.. ..   both of Minnesota’s US Senators and the Governor were on hand to say happy birthday IBM.. The senators both gave great talks.. the Sr. Senator.. Sen Amy  Klobuchar.Was particularly wonderful. She gave a really good talk on innovation and the need for more inspiring Science and Engineering (STEM) training for kids.. We had a GREAT talk about it..  … and I offered my help in any way I could.. She also is cosponsoring Sen Leahy’s patent bill.. which makes me a double big fan.. She was just awesome.

Sen Frankin was hilarious.. as he is required to be. Though he left before I could meet him.

The Gov was nice too.. He’d been a science teacher.. Who knew.. ?!  We talked for a bit, too.

My good buddy  Brad was in town as well.. and he did a good talk… He ‘s the VP/Fellow in charge of our Unix systems.. including those used in Watson.. he proposed Watson as the worlds best dating service… maybe we’ll be playing the Dating Game next with it 🙂

mid day I gave another talk on my time in the Colony.. (our stay in the warehouse ended 2 years ago today !!).. We had so many people interested we had to move the talk to the cafeteria.. it was fun to give that talk with so many friends in the house..

the high point of the day, however.. was a visit to the old graphics lab where I used to work when visiting here.. I could still remember the phone number (x-5285). .. Many of my friends were still in there as I last saw them more than 20 years ago (ok.. so I’ve seen some of them scince.. but others not !.. ).. it was liek a trip through the way back machine..

I just love these folks.. connie, bob. julio (aka carl). ray.. You can go home again !

That plus seeing my good freinds jeff and karen last night..

and seeing freinds like lance, brad, jeff etc, etc, etc.. did my heart so much good…

OK. back to work.. got lots to make up.. Ahh the luggage is finally coming.. gotta go.

nite all, nite sam

-me