I woke this morning agitated because I’d had a strange dream.. I dreamed that I was helping organize a race.. I think it was a marathon.. which is weird, because I’v never run a full marathon…. Anyway.. there were lots of things to do,: course to map, flyers to print.. costumes to buy (don’t remember why) music to plan (there was a band.. I think the grateful dead was going to play at my race !).. etc.. At some point all the racers lined up and then .. bang.. They were off. I kept running around still trying to get all the arraignments done.. I kept obsessing about the paper work… after a while.. I’d realized that I’d never started running. I’d missed my own race ! I was so sad and frustrated. I woke with this heavy feeling that I’ve been trying to process all day.. What did it mean ? .. I have several theories.. i’m sure some of it is about my new job. so much to do.. and so much to learn. But i think it was deeper than that…
ok.. time for bed.. maybe I’ll catch the sequel tonight ?
thanks to the work of freind Javier and the good folks at Campus Party. I was able to change my travel to get home today at noon instead of 10 PM.. that gave me 10 more hours with Diane.. We managed to squeeze in a run with the dogs, a float in the pool. lunch.. then we headed up to the lake to see Tim and Jen..
We got out on the lake in their kayaks whichh was fun.. No breeze and hot sun.. making it actually feel like summer here. It was a a great mini weekend !
here’s a few pics.. somehow mysteriously in sepia 🙂
I’ve just had a really, really wonderful experience. Today I attended “campus Party’. at the Guadalajara expo. . It’s an international event held various places around the world. that gather college students and startuss for a mix of an party hackathon, and crazy campout. . Its’ unlike anything I’ve ever seen.. If I heard right there were 16,000 students attending.. Most of them camped in a huge room full of 8000 tents (yes.. thats 3 zeros.. ).. I’m not even sure it was possible until I waled into the camping pavilion. It looked like.. like .. I don’t even have words.
I spent the entire day talking to brilliant students and entrepreneurs about their projects and plans.. I even got a chance to do a keynote.. there were more than a thousand folks in the audience.. and it was really. really fun. I spoke on a combination of Play at work and IoT.. it seemed to work for this audience > I also had some fun interviews with press.. good questions, nice folks.. My deep , deep thanks to the organizers of Campus Party and my colleagues at IBM for all their help in putting this on.. and keeping me (mostly) out of trouble.
i can’t even describe how cool it was talking to all these folks.. I must have been in over a thousand selfies today.. i took 300 of my own.. I hope by looking you can get the amazing mood of this event
I’m sitting at the Guadalajara airport waiting on my redeye back home
.. I’m still trying to process all that I saw today.. the one feeling I am coming away with is a good feeling about our future given all the smart and wonderful folks I met in Mexico today..
It’s the sabbath.. and I’m not at home. I’m not religious.. but spiritual.. and more than that, In love with my family and home. Thats where i want to be on Friday evenings…. instead I’m on a plane watching the Big Lebowski for the 11th time (no joke) in the past 2 months…. It’s not a bad way to pass an evening.. but not what g-d intended..
