I just read discovered FaceTime… Or use it for work but I rarely use it to talk to Diane. But I’m so far away like this I miss her so much… I also miss chai and satori.
Tonight we tried FaceTime die where has this been all my life? I use video conferencing all the time for work but hardly ever for home. It was so nice seeing those guys

Technology is a wonderful thing… I feel 7% less lonely now

Night all, nights sam.
– Me

Here’s a quick picture of my world of 49g .

it doesn’t matter how many miles fly if you’re on a different Airline
Oh well… have a screen , a pillow and I have a zillion things I need to get done tonight. It’s a gift of sorts.
It’s like my own private island floating east word across the Atlantic…

Do Islands float? This one does !

Night all, nights Sam
– Me

I’m a long time subscriber to Anu Garg’s wonderful ‘Word of the Day’ blog.. Every day I either learn a new word or feel smug for knowing it already.. both are pleasurable sensations 🙂

Todays word was a treat.. It’s the name of our younger Dog Satori…

Satori.. means sudden enlightenment..

great name for a cute and loving dog

great way to start the day !

with Anu Garg

The writer H.L. Mencken once said, “A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.”

He might as well be talking about a community, a culture, or a country.

The reason English is such a rich language is that it’s not afraid to adopt words from other places. It has welcomed words from everywhere. If you speak English, you know parts of at least a hundred different languages.

This week we’ll see five words that came to English from Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, Hindi, and Italian.

satori

(suh-TOR-ee)

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee. -Margaret Courtney, poet (1822-1862)

I finished the “Subtle art of not giving a F…..” that i was talking about the other night. The writing is a little hard to take in places.. every 5th word is.. .. well guess..
but the messages are for the most part right on. I took away quite a few good nuggets..

One that really struck me today was the message that we are all not so special.. Manson makes the point that whether we think we’re the best or the worst..

we’re probably wrong..

He argues that when we complain about our problems.. we project that our problems are somehow ‘special’ .. and worse than others’ problems.. . When we imply our problems are worse than others.. its our egos bragging about how bad we suck. .. or our lives suck.. or whatever.. Doing that minimimizes what others might be feeling.

That struck me.. because I realize that I often use this blog to whine about how busy I am, how tired I am.. etc.

I think he’s right..
i know that you are all busy too !

sorry about that folks.. wasnt my intention

nite all. nite sam
-me