Monday night – museum

I was at my doctor Joe’s today for a routine checkup . As always happens, that meant ai had a couple of minutes waiting for him to free up. I took the time to look through the hundreds of pictures kids had drawn for him on drug rep pads.. while they waited for their shots or whatever.. I always look through these things looking for something my kids may have left over the years… I was so happy to find some. I found two from max, two from gabe.. and one that might be from sam.. but it might not be his style.. I loved looking back in time like that.. i do it often now..

Thanks joe for keeping up this museum !
coupl of minutes hanign out while which wnet hning out waiting for


nite all, nite sam
-me

Sunday night – sit

sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit,

sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit,

sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit,

sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit,

 

thats what i did all day.. i worked on a report for work from 8 am

until about 11:30 PM and only got up a couple of times to say hi

to family and eat…

i got lots done… but.. I cannnnnnnnnnnnnnnot simply type another

word

so.. time to sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep,

sleep, sleepm sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep , sleep, sleep , sleep, sleep

, sleep, sleep , sleep, sleep , sleep, sleep , sleep, sleep , sleep, sleep

nite all, nite sam

-me

Satuerday night – Chai turns 9 (and more of Vilnius)

Nice day back home. The big news today is that our beautiful dog Chai Mariano Cohn turns 9 years old today..

 

She’s gettign to be quite a mature lady. She’s been my friend, my comfort, my alarm clock and my running buddy for a long time. Sam loved (loves) her too

Happy birthday girl !!!!

 

Today began with Gabes soccer game at MMUU.. you can see the heavy frost still in the shade at 10 AM !

a few weeks ago we were standing here sweating in shorts !

 

then back home for a breakfast birthday for chai. She got a squeezy toy and a puzzle (believe it or not) .> She had to fgure out how to open it to get soem cheese. Didn’t take long.. smart girl !

then a nice walk up in Honey hollow. The leaves are past peak.. but still so pretty and peaceful. i needed the down time !

Satori.. is wondering why chai’s getting all the attention today (Well. .she got a squeezy toy too.. they both want to play while i’m typing !)

Couldn’t resist the cool water.. it might have just been in the 40’s .. but I can’t resist cold water.  so i took a little dip in the creek. . it really wakes you up.. and gets you back in your body in an instant.

then back for chais birthday dinner.. eggs, cheese and bacon !!!

 

OK.. thats it for today.. what follows are some pics from this week.. Here’s a few shots of Riga Latvia..   gotta love this poster !

I drove with Ugis , joe and simone from Riga to Vilius.. we went near the town where my great, great uncle was from.. we found his tombstone in israel . You can read about that here.

we were also only 60 km from Kaunas where others in my family were.. No one still left after the Holocaust.. It was strange being there knowing that past..

next morning.. I was at the Vilnius TV station by 6:30 AM.. first stop.. makeup (yuck)   then on tv where 25 percent of the population of the country watched me talk for 10 minutes.. so funny !

by the time we left the tv station the moon and venus where against a brightening sky.. i always love it like this.

Here we are with my handlers  ready to go into the IBM meeting.. you always need a hulahoop at ibm meetings.

this is the famous TV tower in vilnuis. Sever folks were killed trying to defend this tower from soviet tanks in 1991 ~


Here are the students at Vilnius university after my talk..

one of the TV ladies tried the hoop


there was a redbull truck in the lot.. here’s one for Sam !(we always pour the first sip out for him )

then another talk at IBM.. great audience !

then soem sightseeing at night of the old city.. the one my ancestors called home

then a lovely dinner


a great walk back to the hotel


and a long 8 hour flight where i worked the entire way..

home to vermont

where it was snowing !

ok.. gotta run.. more tomorrow.

happy birthday chai

nite all, note sam

-me

 

Friday night – back from baltics.

Home again after a very busy week in the baltics.. 6 customer presentations, three university talks and a bunch of media things.. and then a full days worth of work in the evening with folks back home. It was a great trip.. I met so many wonderful people.. still I’m really beat… So beat in fact I can’t seem to type well enough to upload my pictures from Vilnius, Actually.. I think Photo bucket may be down.. with everyone’s permission I’m going to wait until tomorrow to upload them.. right now I just want to hangout with Diane and try to stay awake for an hour more or so so I can sleep through the night..

I promise to get those pics up tomorrow.

for now..
nite all. nite sam
-me