Great day. Diane Max and I were at Carnegie Mellon Universtiy ,, my graduate school alma mater, for an event called Cèilidh Weekend.  It’s a a weekend of talks, demonstrations, panels and events  designed for both current and previous alum. It was a full day event with lots of hand shaking wiht interesting an fun people

 

The alumni relations folks took such good care of us.. I knew where I had to be and what i had to do at every point in the day. They even had a parking place for me !

 

first stop was an awardi lunch.. where I got to met a bunch of really nice folks who were also gettign awards.   Then i had to ggo get prepared for my talk..

n the way there, i ran into David Souter, the former supreme coaurt justice in the bathroom.. how cool is that ?

 

the hall for my tlak was a comfortable size.. as folks filtered in, i got to reunite with many old  friends.. Here’s Dave G catching up with larry. Dave an I collaborated on our phd research and wrote a book together back in the day.

 

Shilo and beck  f old friends  from vermont showed up too..

 

 

my talk went pretty well.. too long, but audience seemed to like it. I enjoyed speaking to them..

Friend ben even arraigned to have ice cream there for everyone .. that was so awesome..

 

after my talk.. we walked over to hamershlag  with larry and lea to see our old stomping grounds. Here’s my old office..

 

Around 5 i headed over to green room. where all the folks getting awards got together. It was great to meet them all.. here’s the gang

 

CMU President Sureash welcomed us all

 

 

then it was time to get  bagpiped into the hall. away we go !

 

 

there were 18 awardeees.. I was last.. which allowed me to listen to all the other folks.. which was cool

i was really, really  homered to get the distinguished achievement award..

one by one we got called up on stage, they played a nice  video.. we got our award then made a short talk. I loved the short video they’d made me.

 

 

and then it was over !.. We got bagpiped back into the hall for a really nice reception.   I met so many folks and shook so many hands that my head was spinning.. .. in a good way. it was inspiring meeting all of those good folks.. I also got to meet the families of the other awardies.

 

Diane and Max there..were super patient with me as i Shmoozed..

 

 

then ut was done..

 

we headed bakc to the hotel changed clothes a.. and the 3 of us headed out for beer at Primantis.. a famous place.. where the serve french fires on their sandwiches.. It was only beer for us tonight though .  I don[t think id been in primantis since the early 90’s.. it hadn’t changed all that much 

 

 

 

now .. grateful after this long and fun day to be lying in bed..

time for me to go to sleep !

 

More stuff tomorrow. Nite all, nite sam

-ne