Home again, home again jiggly jig..

Glad to be back in rainy VT…..   pretty good week.. though really exhausted.. looking forward to time off the next two weeks.

Funny thing happened over the last two days.. A picture I posted of me sitting next to Bernie Sanders on a plan has gone somewhat  viral.. I’ve been hearing from folks all day about tweets like this https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/664235354107617281   . The mene is .. Bernie files coach.. with Santa !

 

HoHoHO !!

 

Anyway.. here are some pic from the conference I just attended. Overall it was great being there. enjoyed the technical content.. an really enjoyed hanging out with new friends  and old friends..

 

 

 

 

Our demo worked pretty well  and both got laughs.. and helped us tell an important message.. (which I won’t go into here 🙂

 

great dinner last night across the teams..

 

 

mostly meat !.. but fries were good !

 

nice flight back.. sat next to really cool guy George.. He’s on a mission.. good luck in that mission George !

 

OK.. gotta sleep. more tomorrow.

 

Nite all. nite sam !

-me

Busy. busy day out here in California.. I was halfway through the day before I realized it was Veterans Day.  Got me thinking about my dad and my fatter in law.. who were both veterans..

Her’s my Pa Hugh n the Navy in the early 50’s//

 

and here’s my father in law Gabe in the Army.. probably mid 50s

 

 

Look at the great smiles on them both !

 

Thanks to them..a nd everyone else who served !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Greetings from the edge of consciousness… I've got about four hours asleep for the last two or maybe three days I think it's a Tuesday but I can't be quite sure. It's about 1130 but I can't stay conscious anymore.

It's been some long hours trying to get our demo working… It's always like that. It's funny how hard it can be to get little details right. What's funny though is seen so many people from all other sort of companies going through exactly the same thing of last-minute trying to get things to work. I guess that's what drives our industry

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even though it was hard, it was fun working with the team and our company and our part. I tried to pay back a little bit of the help they gave me by helping them as they reprogrammed about 100 microprocessors for a class tomorrow

After scarfing down some pizza I went back and met Collin who's out here now working at Google. It was so great catching up with him. He really loves his job. What's not to like about free sushi every day?

OK after scarfing down some pizza I went back and met Collin who's out here now working at Google. It was so great catching up with him. He really loves his job. What's not to like about free sushi every day?

 

OK. I can't stay awake anymore.

night all, night Sam
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-me

 

 

Wow… What a long day. Travis and I worked together from about nine this morning until about 230 am.for trying to put the finishing touches on our demo and. Like always… There are many speed bumps. It was so much fun working with Travis though…he is such a great guy… Smart fine, hard-working… And just super nice. In the lead up to this I've found myself being abrupt with people and even cursing when things were going well. I made a big effort today to back away from the frustrations that the system was providing us can actually ease out. It made all the difference. We actually had fun even as the fates tried (and are still trying) to get in our way of a successful demo

When I get uptight about these kind of things Diane always reminds me to breeze…

I did a lot of breathing today and it was great

Now to try to get a little sleep

Night all,night sam

-me