This afternoon is been kind of a good news bad news situation. The bad news is that United delayed my flight and I missed my Newark connection to Munich for the sixth time in the last 12 months. That means getting bumped to lift Anza which is far less accommodating. For all the miles I travel without that doesn’t care. So I’m in the back of the bus on a packed flight. Somehow I got to figure out how to sleep.
Good news is that in Burlington I ran into my friend Eugene and his GF Pamela I got to hang out with them for several hours. At this point my life where I’m trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up really interesting people who live different lives is just what I’m looking for

Jean wants to make a set of drums or you can crush grapes in and have 2 m spark between them … That sounds like a good project to think through !!!

Talk to you from Germany
night all night sam
-me

Happy mothers day all you mamas out there.. I hope you had a great day..

I sure appreciate the mothers in my life.. Diane.. my ma and Marcia.  THanks for brining us all in into the world and for all the love you give !

I had one full day home this week.. and we made it a very good one. We got outside .. despite the rain .. to take a good run.. and to take the grils on a 5 mile loop out throguh catamount and honey hollow. It was full spring.. and htere were so many colors of green, red, pink.. It’s liek the fall in revers. the red flower buds fall off and leave only green

 

THis evening we had tim, jen, julia hannah, ian. gabe and Shawn over for a mothers day spring role making party.. it was so ymmy ..   just look at the hot sauces we have @

 

 

 

wo nderful meal !

 

midway through we heard from Nate by satelite txt from a glacier in Alaska .. here’s his position

I also was testign my new set of machine eyes.. just for fun

 

 

 

ok.. jet lag kicking in.. time for bed

 

happy motehrs day everyone

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Just landed in Chicago after a 15 hour ride from Hong Kong. Soon after landing i got these very cool pictures from diane .. Turns out that soemthing has been gettign into our gargabe.. and all of the neighbors garbage too. Dine thought it was racoons.. so she weighed the lid of the garbage down.. that didnt work. THen she tried bungeeing on the top.. She foudn the garbage container 15 feet away with the top pulled off bu tthe bungees still on..

 

She mentioned it to our neighbor jeff who used a wildelife camera to take this picture in his yard aroudn midnight last night..

It’s a bit hard to see under the bike,.. but thats a bear.. a pretty big bear !

for comparison.. here’s the samew scene with no bear

and with a few minutes of fiddling online.. I generated this

now that doesnt happen every day !

 

The trip today  was made much nicer by sitting next to a really nice guy. Steve is from NW Mass and is a software guy. He had a zillion interesting hobbies..which made for fun conversation.  THe funny thing is.. just before we got of the plane.. I showed him the picture of the bear. He whipped out his phone and showed me a picture of a bear he’d taken in HIS yard last week.. How cool is that ?

 

ok.. gotta go find my plane home

nite all. nite sm

-me

 

 

Meetings agin this morning in a rainy city

Said bye to my friends then off for the hour ride to the airport

Lonely but lovely bimbombop in a Korean place at the airport

Plane to Hong Kong was 2 hours late due to weather somewhere (it’s nice here) . There was a last minute gate change (in Chinese ) that had me running for the plane . In the shuffle I must have dropped my phone . Some kind stranger found it .. it was waiting for me as I boarded the plane

Thank you kind stranger !

Safe travels everyone ! (Me 2)

Nite all, nite sam
-me