The first day of spring .. and its snowing out.. Finally home after 2 days of travel  back from Poland. My flight last night got canceled afte waiting at JFK until after midnight. Not all bad because it gave me time to catch up with my old friends and cousin-in-laws Bill and Deb who’d been on the same flight. The next available flight out was at 5PM today.. so I grabbe a hotel and worked all day from there.. not too bad..

I did wake to some sad news. My friend Bruce called to tell me that our old friend Martin Trotter died of pancreatic cancer on Mar 10th. Martin and I have been work buddies since the early 1980’s . Marin worked for IBM in Hursley England. In 1984 we swapped jobs // he came to live in Vermont while we lived there in England I was working at IBM and Diane was in grad school. ..  Martin was one of the smartest and hardest working guys I knew. He was quiet and had a very fumy ., self effacing sense of humor. He always amazed me with hom much he could get done on his own at work..  I tried finding pictures of him online and came up with just these two… that’s so like him /  Martin is back right in the group photo.

its so like him to be so accomplished.. and yet not very visible… We will miss you Martin

I downloaded Linkedin on my new phone. I was trying to track down some of our Martin’s old  friends so I could tell them.. Somehow i  accidentally managed to hit a button that sent out 547 LinkedIn invites to folks..

while I hadn’t meant to do it.. i managed to hear from a ton of old friends as they accepted the invites. It was a nice feeling which lifted my spirits…

if you are one of those old friends.. thanks for being out there today ..

nite all, nite sam

-me