Wednesday night – Once in a blue moon

In a generic hotel in MD right now eating a good but lonely salad and drinking a beer. The hotel had several beer choices.. but I took my least favorite beer… ‘Blue Moon’..I think it tastes like bad home made beer.. and believe me.. i’ve made my share of bad home made beer.

Why .. you might ask.. with a good selection of beer would i choose my least favorite .. ..

Because of tradition !  Blue Moon was my Dad’s favorite beer.. he always bought it.. I think he thought I liked it.. I guess I did when I was drinking it with him..

 

Tonight I’m drinking it alone.. and I found it actually tastes ok if I think of him when I drink it.. 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me

Tuesday night – Puri’s puri’s

at my friends Ruchir and Rashi’s tonight. first time seeing them settled in their beautiful new home. Very nice.. The girls have grown in height and talent. both Isha and Anika played the harp for us..  and Rashi cooked wonderful food including her trademark puri’s.. that makes them puri’s puri’s i guess 🙂

 

 

great visit.. glad to see them all after so long

nite all. nite sam

-me

Monday night – happy birthday to me !

Thanks for all the great birthday wishes, everyone !

I had a nice, albeit busy birthday down here filled with phone and infernos meetings. All good stuff..

I do want to make up for being such a poor poster last night. My colony friends and I were all at vlad and edites last night. We wanted to be there for them. It’s been just two weeks since their beautiful daughter Bettina died..

It was a sad and wonderful gathering.. we hadn’t all been together since 2010. I can’t believe how close we all are after all that time.. Vlad was like our emotional center .. and we needed to be there for him and his family .. we all knew it.

 

Vlad showed us the magnolia that Betinna had gotten for them.. it never flowers in Feb.. just for Bettina ..

 

The house was as full and interesting as I remember it. The pool table was still covered with flowers and pictures

 

 

Amy, Vlad and I took advantage of the slow afternoon to drive over to 615 anderson.. where we lived

 

there was an event being filmed there.. so we were actually able to go inside.. not in the main rooms.. but in the yard and entry rooms. It was pretty surreal seeing this place again.. let alone being inside !

 

It was hard to believe that we’d been in there for more than 10 weeks straight !

 

 

from there we went down to the river to the place where we got our water.. how bizzare to wade in that filthy water again !

 

 

then it was back to lads.. as the others showed up. It was an amazing evening. unhinge, crying telling stories. It was like old times in some ways…

 

and in others really not..

 

 

my times through the night we toasted Bettina, Vlad, Edite and Ciad

 

 

I do love these folks .. amazing.. amazing, amazing evening

I’m heading back east tonight.. but my thoughts are with vlad and his family

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Sunday night – Here for Vlad

Hello from Beverly Hills. I am out here along with most of my Colony  friends to visit with our dear friend Vlad, His wife Edite and their grandsons Caid. Vlad and Edite’s  daughter Bettina died two weeks ago at age 47 .. She was a great person.. here were pictures of her all over the house.

Its too late for me to post all my pictures from today. I’ll do that tomorrow. For now.. Here’s one of my favorites.

 

We love you Vlad !

more about getting together tomorrow

 

nite all, nite sam

 

-me