Friday night – family sushi

I have to admit .. I was feeling a bit jet  lagged today.. probably because I stayed up till 2:30 this morning talking to Max..   I was very glad with late afternoon rolled around and I could call it a day. My last obligation for the day was when Matt and his mom visited to do some filming. Matt is a soon-to-be 9th grader who is doing a film project on Cochran road. So far he’s interviewed 19 residents of our road for stories about the past.. He did a good job asking questions.

I scanned some pictures of the area for him to take.. so I figure I aught to share them here.   Here’s the old Jonesville store.

here’s our neigborhood after the ’27 flood

here’s what it looked like before the flood

Here’s what the sawmill across the street looked like nearly 100 years ago

nad here’s a clever artists rendition of ‘Richmond in the future’.. note the subway to Jonesville 🙂 .. Funny thing is, we found this card at a flea market in Pennsylvania !

After Matt left, we all piled in the car for family sushi.. It was nice having the four of us in the car.. it was liek when they were babies.. not babies anymore !..we ate our weight in sushi !

Beautiful sunset on the way home, too .

then some upsidedowness to help settle that sushi..

 

I love my family very much ..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Thursday night – maxs home !

Max dropped in this weekend which is really nice.. He and i are hanging around the kitchen at 2 am…

So cant write much ..

Today i went to a nice mixer at the generator.. Lots of nice folks !

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Then a great visit at gary and jeans to see our old freinds dave. Linda and abby who are here visiting from oregon. The only picture i got from there was one of dave and one of max with a duckling…

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Take my word for it then.. It was nice

Man am i sleepy..

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Wednesday night-ish – Dis-Oriented

Just back from a very fruitful and useful trip to ‘the orient’.. and feelign suitibly ‘disoriented’ to be back.

 

Started the first of my two wednesdays with breakfast with my old friend Muryama-san

 

 

 

THen meetings at IBM Research lab with all my Friends

 

then about 17 hours of flying which included the worlds worst tasting cookies !

Wednesday night-ish - Dis-Oriented

 

I loved my trip, talkign to folks, experiencign the cuture and the sights.. but nothing compres to coming home for me..

73 degrees, cool and green.. ahhhhhhhhhhh

 

there’s really no place like home…

 

 

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

Tuesday night – RTE

Great day today in Tokyo.. First breakfast with Sam, A very smart HR guy here at IBM Japan.. Then my talk at Japan’s Regional Technical Exchange. There were about 400 folks here.. my talk went pretty well (i think  ?)

I ran into my very good friend Takeo-san in the crowd..   She and I traveled all over the world together for several years as part of the academy leadership.. It was so good catching up with her.

After that Shiu-san and Kobayashi-san spent a couple of hours taking me to lunch and showing me around Tokyo a bit. It was really fun hanging out with them ..

we stopped in to southbank check out this robot.. pretty cool !

we then headed back to the lab for my next talk.. I was amazed to see little kids.. maybe 8 years old riding the subway by themselves !

 

 

i got to connect with some old friends in the lab including Akiko-san and Kajitani san.. very good catching up with them technically and personally.

 

akiko-san was proud to show off her ‘nerd barbie’.

 then I gave my talk. it was for a really nice group of external bloggers. They asked some really great questions.I really enjoyed hanging out with them.

 

then I headed back to the hotel.. , met up with my buddy sebastian and headed out to his house for dinner. We were to have met up sunday.. but my plane cancellation prevented that. It was great getting to see him and meet his family. They only moved here 2 weeks ago !  Sebastians wife is lovely and their kids are soooo cute !

 

there was a ton of love in that house !

Sebastian is a math/cryptography  geek.. .. working on the Riemann hypothesis.. here’s his light bedtime reading..

i really enjoyed my visit with Sebastian and family. i was a lovely meal.. I loved getting to meet his family whom he talks about all the time.

around 10:30 I took the long subway ride back to the hotel

Now it’s time for sleep. Heading home tomorrow !

more from the road then

nite all. nite sam

-me