Good day at work. Despite a pretty nasty soar throat.. .. Fun and challenging but nothing i can discuss here….
Didnt get to do anything but work.. So no pictures except for this one… There goes my plans for the evening..sigh….
Night all, nite sam
-me
Hello from my ancestral home… At least one of them .. that we got to Winchester about 830 tonight. my work friends and i dropped our stuff at the hotel and went out to have a meal. It was so cool walking around with in this place that i used to live. It hasn't changed much… I guess a city this old wouldnt. Still it took me back like a Time Machine.
Okay… Major jet lag setting in… More tomorrow from Hursley.Night all, night sam– Me
Im just about to land in jolly old England.. And I'm feeling neither jolly nor (thankfully) old.. Unfortunately due to an equipment mixup, i did not have enough battery power to get all the work done i needed to do .. So it looks like a long night.
I am happy, though, to be returning to the UK. Ive only been here in short (1-2 day) stays since diane and i lived here in 1984-86. I was working at ibm hursley and diane was at grad school at the university of southhampton.
In fact,… on Wednesday, i will return for first time I've been back to our adopted home town of Winchester for… Hmmmm… When was it ? Sam was 3 and max was 7 i guess that makes it something like 17 years.. Then we traded homes wihit our dear friiends phil and sue.. They took ours, we took theirs…
I remember that trip so well…. We sat in their wonderful house in the country and watched old godzilla movies and played with their cat….
Now so much has changed… both sam and sue have died. . Phil is visiting in the us.. Tis week aNd im going to be here on my own,,, Im looking forward to it in a nostalgic kind of way… If you can look forward to something in the past.
I do look forward to walking the same streets.. Seeing some old friends and reliving those relativly crefree days of warm beer, cream teas and fried food.
I am looking forward to the work im doing he as well.. Im very excited about the stuff im working on now.. At the same time its complex… Wish me luck..
Ahh were landing now.. Btter sign off.. More from the round,
Great day..
Two big events today. Our furry friend Chai turns 10 year old today. quite an elegant lady !.. Gabe made her (and Satori) a hamburger, egg supreme dish to celebrate). You couldn’t ask for a better four legged friend.. We love you Chai-baby !
We love you too satori !
The other big news of the day was our friend Jeremey’s wedding to the love of he life and long time girlfriend Dani.. the wedding was donw in Plymoth which was a beutiful 2 hour drive through fall colors..
Down there we met up with Jerememys’ family and freinds.. including our old friend Shawn. 
Mason and Claire dorve down with us (in separate car) 
Jac and Max had come up too. (Gabe and Raya stayed up here) 
it was a beutiful camp house near a small pond.. perfect weather and color.. 
the wedding started at 1.. here are jeermey’s mom and brother 
jermey’s sister
dani and her dad 
and before we knew it.. they were hitched !
the wedding party skipped out.. !
then time for pics 
one shot from upstairs..
then in to eat !
karen, jeremy’s mom brought her tea cup collection.. and 24 pies she’d made herself !
time to cut the .. uh… pie !
thumprints from everyone !
first dance 
jeff and karen.. 
Sean, Jeremy and Max once had a band.. EVOL (love backwards) .. the band was back together !
sean and his gf molly.
the happy couple.
Cute couple !
Diane and I then drove home.. .. to see gabe.. Gabe felt like doing some chemistry.. so we took a pile of Ammonium Dichromate and lit it to make a volcano… A perfect end to a very nice day
ok.. early flight so I gotta sleep..
nite all, nite sam
-me
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