I had the great oppertunity today to meet German Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender.  They came to our center so what were doing. Here’s a great picture of me, Martina Koederitz, the General Manger of IBM Germany. Switzeralnd an Austria ,  the President, his wife, and my freind Sanjy

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The President and Ms. Büdenbender were great guests.. they asked all the right questions !

we got to laugh too ! (Thats my head :-))

nite all. nite sam

-me

ok.. interesting day.. I gave a talk this morning to a bunch of database folks… they were very nice. very smart.. and from a canother planet I’ve never visited.

It was so much fun visiting their planet..

Now I’m on an airplane heading back to Munich . In the last hour.. I made an inanapropriate joke to Madeline Albright abut the power of mediocre men…  and i just had a really good conversation with the former ambassador to Germany.. he’s going to help me figure out what I want to be when I grow up..

all of that pales in comparison to what I just saw.. I’m watching fight club.. and my companies name appears in the dialog within the first 3 minutes..

Ed Norton and Brad Pitt both approve of my employer.. .. actuiallly Tyler Durgan approves of my employer.

Now thats something !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Tyler: “Hows that working out for you … being clever”

me: “great”

tyler “then keep it up”

It’s the strangest thing one moment I am home and the next moment I am somewhere else

I never intend to be somewhere else but sometimes I just look around me and there I’m not… It’s not that somewhere else is such a bad place it’s just not home.

Somewhere else is the kind of place you go sometimes but not all the times…
I’m finding myself somewhere else almost all the time so much so that sometimes Home even feels like somewhere else…

Except that my girl and my dogs are all at home which makes it like nowhere else

Night all night Sam
-me

Spent most of the day working.. but did get out for a hike with James and a run later in the day

James is an interestign frind of ours.. Lives lone and spends a good deal of time in the foods behind his house. He took us up the hill to show us where he works out.. He keeps fit by using his gym in the woods

he even has rocks that he’s choosen for their specific weights..

we were hikign up there and foudn a samstoen we put there at least a year ago.. maybe 2.

and we put a new on ther in this crack in a rock

its fun seeign soemone elses woods and the stuff in them.. I loved this old junk car we found very far up in the woods.. I wonder what it’s story was ?

then back to james’s.. he has soem interesting stuff.. his yard is liek a museum !

came home to find this daffodil growing up through a hole in a stone.. amazing.. no ?

ok.. time for bed.. more later

nite all. nite sam

-me