Greetings from Munich.. Cool and great here just like home  (Hey.. just like me.. Cool and Grey !)

Spent a good part of the morning trying to find my hotel.. which gave me ample views of this post industrial town .

 

I spent the bulk of the day working in my room..  around *pm I realized that I hadn’t eaten all day.. or seen another human.. o

 

so I wandered down to the restaurant and broke one of my cardinal rules of travel.. I never eat by myself if I can help it.. but I was starving.. Reminds me of one of my favorite billy collins poems  (blogged about that here http://johncohn.org/base/2013/11/12/tuesday-night-eating-alone/)

 

 

Hard to be sad and lonely with a plate full of cheese coated spaetzle !!!!

 

Now trying to figure out my post modern thermostat.. everything here is so modern and sleek.. just.. can’t figure out how to turn this off of ‘roast’ 

More from here tomorrow

 

nite all, nte sam

-me

In newwork…just about to take off for Munich. (Hopefully) my last business trip of the year. Excited about the weeks work.. Ahead.. A little unstelled about being on the road with all the crazy stuff swirling around us…

Wishing everyone some quiet and ease…..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

About 2:30 AM and I’m just back from a crazy adventure ..

 

It all started at 6PM at Champlain college.. a really nice holiday party for folks from IBM .. So lots of good friends there

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after a nice visit there.. we went to Ben’s famous latke party.. but missed the latkes by several minutes.

 

 

 

somewhere there Duane talked us into ‘Santarchy.. a pub  crawl of my folks dressed as santa.. We all got on pieces of costumes.. spreadnign one costonm over at least 2 people..

Woody offered to be our designated driver downtown

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from there we went bar to bar as a huge group of santa.. at one time I think we had almost 30 !!!

 

Everywhere I went folks wanted pictures. I’d ask if they were good.. most said yes.. the ones who didn’t I reassured that they still had time

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We danced and drank (i drank seltzer.. so it was fun to observe my friends getting more in the xmas spirit)

 

around 2 we found a cab and headed out to richmond and waterbury. Heres’ our great driver..a  19 year old guy from Lebanon

 

I came away from the evening pumped up.. So many folks came up and talked.. and they genuinely wanted to tell me about their pre-christmas behavior and christmas wishes..

I felt honored to get to hear them.

 

ok.. now I gotta sleep. Happy Santarchy everyone

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I took the late afternoon off and went downtown to try and do some holiday shopping downtown. It was really nice being with Diane.. and really nice being outside in the almost balmy 50 degree weather. Even though i was having fun and relaxing with my girll.. , I have to admit it was pretty hard  for me to get into the spirit. Lots of folks hurting these last couple of weeks and it’s gotten into my bones. wishing everyone some peace

 

note all, nite sam

-me