Friday night – indefatigable

I had a great laugh today when a friend of mine described me in writing as 'indafategable'..

Ha ! I say.. ha !

I may look like that fromt he outsie, but I am edfintely feeling fategable ! Im about as fategalated as i can remember being in a very long time..

Theres a polar vortex of work projects, hobby projects, work unertainty, sleepless nights , road trips an impening birthdays that absolutely is making my head spin…

But somehow. Im still feeling pretty happy.. .. Happy, but ftigable

Maybe its the birthday

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Thursday night – almost japan

Diane and i just got back home froma. 'Quick' trip to state college, Pa to do some outreach with our freinds bruce, marybeth and brad, and to see our friends kate, shannon and steve. I el goo abou the meeins i had at psu

I say the trip was 'quick' because Diane drove three quarters of both ways. On the 10 hour trip . That allowed me to work both ways in the car because I have wireless. I noted just before we got home that each way was about the same amount of time it took to fly to Japan and back which is something I've done quite a few times the last few years. The nice thing was that I had my best buddy Diane in the pilot seat.

Another bonus was that we were able to stop in and see Diane's mother for about an hour on the way back. It was great seeing her that she seems to be doing well.

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I took a minute to go down to the basement where we that always worked with my father-in-law gabe's tools. I wanted to get something from there to as a keepsake but I didn't want to take any of the tools either of my sons would miss. I settled on a jar of thread cutting oil. It's the kind of thing you use a couple of times year so it will last forever. It's also the kind of thing no one would miss. I was happy to have it

 

After lunch we took the now short feeling 6 Hour Drive home. And I never missed a meeting.

Like I said… To Japan and back.
Nite all, nite sam
– Me

 

Tuesday night – old friends

9:30 this morning diane and i got in the car and headed south. I worked the entire day while diane drove nearly 500 miles to state college pa.. Im here to do some education outreach and day job stuff..
The drive was amazingly easy since diane did 99.35 % of the driving while i worked and tlsked on the phone.
We did make a few stops..we happened to run into an aquaintance of mine, rajiv somewhere in the middle of nowhere in ny… Nice talking to him.
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After about 9 hours we ended at the home of our very good freinds kate and steve.. We met them about the third day we lived. In pittsburgh in 1988. we met them because i was carrying a baby (max) and they had just had a baby just a few months earlier. max and matt grew up as close friends.. And so did kate,steve and i
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After a great dinner with steve and kate, steve and i went out to meet my very good freinds bruce, mary beth and their son brad.
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We did a tequill toast to all of our friends who could not be with us,, starting with sam, jim,bruces mom..
Tasted good and sweet
 
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Time for sleep.. More from here tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me