We had a great time tonight at a  birthday party for our friend Ang.. it wasn’t really a birthday party.. it was a Salon..

I love the idea. Salon’s were pupoulare in the 18, 19th and early 20th century..    There were  salons  like the famous Bloomsbury group  where folks like virgina wolfe and Em. Forester  met in cafes and held court.  I first became familiar with the concept in one of my favorite books. Der Man Ohne Eigenschaften (The man with out Qualities) by Robert Musil.. Musil talks about the Salon of the beutiful and powerful  (and fictional) Diotima, who rued society on Vienna in the early 20th century..Salons were a way to entertain and educate.. to spread ideas..

THe solon tonight  was such a  great and generous idea.. instead of having a party about herself.. Ang and Ryan invited an eclectic group of friends..and made the party about them.. Everyone was invited to perform or share something..

 

 

Ang and Ryans kids Dash and Lioni kicked things off..

then there were readings

 

dance

 

music

 

including a wonderful song Ryan performaed.. He wrote it whenhe proposed to ang…

 

 

they are SO cute together

 

Te cool thing about salons is that it wasn’t  only artists and poets who did it.. Scientists like Nikala Tesla were popular participants Tesla used to bring his high voltage devices to Salons to share advances in sceince with non sceintists…

That inspird me to bring soem high voltage gadgets tonight the pickle experiment, some van der graff fun.. and an attempt at some tesla play.. which didn’t work out (Scott.. will call tomorrow.. I think I need to replace the optical receiver on on the interrupter board 🙁 )

all in all it fit in well

 

now honme.. it’s in the high 60’s outside.. gettign pretty warm to sleep ! .. but I’m so sleepy.. should work

 

ok.. night all. night sam

-me

 

Today is Gabe’s 22nd birthday.  What a great kid.. ! Funny , smart, hardworking,.. i’m so proud to be his popa

Diane picked me up at the airport at 7 and we went straight downtown. . and we took him, raya and a mix of current and former roomates to Single pebble

really good meal.. and good fun

 

 

 

then back to gabes for cake !

 

we left there by 11  just when jetlag was kicking in for me.. and all f them were ready to go out on the town,..,:-)

It was a good trip…but

i’m so glad to be home.. I miss diane and the dogs and my house so much now when i trav

happy, happy, happy to be home

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

ps.. nice treat today.. I had an early meeting at work.. which made getting my flight a little tight. My friend Luca used one of our leased BMW i8 to get me to the airport in a very short , fast drive.. That was fun !. Thanks Luca !!!!

 

 

 

Busy day.. started by meeting my good friend kala across town for breakfast . SHe’s in town for a meeting..

I know her from Kenya.. but she works in armonk now in my old team. it was so  good catching up with her.

long productive day.. so much on my mind.. so much to do..

 

got hoem from work about 8PM which was still pretty light. met up with my freind Andy B… .. we decided to find a middle eastern place.. I’m so glad ew did

We foudn a Lebanese plase  called Ksara in Munchener Freiheit.. about 3/4 miel from the hotel.

they had a 17 dish dinner for 2.. which they made all vegetarian for us.. it was SO AMAZING!. my new favorite restaurant i Munich !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

at 11 p, i had to get back on the phoen for work (and am still) gonna be a longish night .. so I’ll stop here

 

nite all. note sam

-je

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Almost 2 AM after a very long day here in Munich. It was a funny next day. I had more than my share of normal businessy stuff… Meetings, politics, budgets… All part of my job… But not part of my core wiring.

Mixed in with that though with some real wiring. I was able to laser cut some stuff in the fab lab , do a little coding, and help my friends Andy and Jochen wire some new cognitive functions into our wonderful building here.
I absolutely love when the physical meets the digital. I still managed to make time to actually do some hands-on stuff

OK lights out for me… More tomorrow
Night All, night Sam
-me