I woke this morning at 9:30… 9 hours of sleep !!!.. I met up with my freinds John. David and Eric at 10 and headed to the  Deutsches Museum…   beutiful walk ..

 

 

on the way We stopped for breakfast… ..

 

where I learned tha Leanard Cohen had died..

It really hit me..  I’d been thinkign of him quite a bit recently ..he was much in the press recently..  he just put out a new album at age 82… I just read a great article about  him in the New Yorker..   I wonder.. Did he know it was near his time ? .

 

I’m laying in bed in the hotel listenign to lots of his old songs.. Suzanne, Hey thats no way to say goodbye, Angels of Mercy.. Chelsea Hotel (one of my favorites)..  So long Mariane Perfect Blue Raincoat…

Just hear ‘Who By Fire’. based ona Yom Kipper prayer… I always liked Cohen’s music.. it resonated with me and put me in a nice and sad mood…

thats what I feel like feeling   right now..

 

Current mood aside… had a great day .. the detches museam was a wonderful geekfest…

 

 

 

they had a fantastic high voltage setup and demo !

(scott.. they had an amazing Marx generator.. you would have loved it !!!!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

they had a great aircraft exhibit.. including soem movies of the hindenburg.. did you knwo it had swastikas on it ?

 

one of my favorite parts was the historical computing exibit

 

we also saw a cool liquid nitrogen demo..

 

and I foudn a ‘perpetual motion’ proposal by someone with Dianes Last Name and the kids middle names !

 

and I found diane and all three kids initials on a building

 

had a great veggie meal downtown.. where trump was never far away..

ok.. time for sleep…  more tomorrow

nite all,nite sam

-me

I want to take a quiet moment at the end of crazy week to rember that this is Veterans day. I am a confirmed pascifist.. but that doesn’t stop me for a moment for being thankful to all people of whatever country that were so passionate in what they beleved that they would fight to protect the people they loved..

I want to give a special shout out to our dear friend and neighbor Pat Quinn who’s in the hospital today.. on the mend.. and was a WWII ventran. Diane visited him today in the hospital .. both looking good !

 

as always,   I want to remmeber the service of my dad Hugh

 

andmy fatehr in law Gabriel…

we apreciate all you did for us !

nite all, nite sam

-me

I am a realist.. and given we have no choice . I’m going to remain optimistic.. I’m also enough of an anrchist to enjoy the crazy ride wherever it takes us. from Munich.. It’s a really interesting place to watch the world watch us.. I dont think i spoke to a single person today who did not ask me abotu the election. They are all polite and reserved abotu it.. but everyone want’s to know what happened..

How do I explain soemthing that I can’t even understand …   I just said  to another non-us freind that I am enough of a realist.. that  given we have no choice . I’m going to remain optimistic.. I’m also enough of an anrchist to enjoy the crazy ride wherever it takes us.

How do you say WTF in German ?

night all, night  sam

-me

 

I  got on a plane last night around 9PM in SF and by then know that the election was not goign as planned.. I watched it for many hours on the plane until i knew what was goign to happen. I didn’ thave the heart to watch it until the end. I woke at 3 after  a restless sleep somewhere  over the atlanttic and my elbow nudged the remote…

I saw the news..

Trump had won the election..

I couldn’t believe it..

 

I’ve watched the concession speech that Hillary made and teh remarks obama made..   also got me crying..

I actually had never really considered that Trump could actually win.   There are so many resons that I did not see him fit for this job.. but now he has it..

and we’re goign to all have to make that work.   I’m not happy about it.. No.. I’m very. very unhappy.. very very, very unhappy

but I’m actually an optimist in that there are so many checks and balanceds in the system that change will come slow and measured from this side as it has from the other..

I only hope that Trump steps down from the circus of the campaign and  surreounds himself with some  smart people and works to pull people back together.

I dont’ know if that will happen. but it has to..we have to make that work.

 

i wish him and us.. all the luck we can possible get.. we’re goign to need it..

this is goign to be a bumpy ride for sure.

 

nite all. nite sam

-me