Today my leeeeetelest baby sister, SPG turns 50 years old. I still remember staring into her crib going “what’s this?”
She has always been the cutest person in our family and she knows it. When she was little she spelled her name “SPG” and honestly I can’t remember what her real name is… Wait… Now I remember… No I guess I was wrong
Seriously Mary you are my favorite little sister… I know you’re my only little sister but even if I had several you would probably be up there. You have been such a good friend and mentor to me even though I thought you’re still only 12
You have such a beautiful family and such a beautiful outlook on life.
I love you very much little sister. Very happy birthday
Busy day.. nice greek dinner out with really nice friends which happened bcause I could get my skype working in time to join a meeting.. nice silver lining.. thought I really wanted to attend the meeting
the only toy i had at dinenr was a UV laser. I repeated my ‘saturated facts’ experiment with the
very nice olive oil on the table.
here’s is the lasers natural color a blue purple
heres what it looksl ike in water with a little alcohol.. green !
here is olive oil right t out of the can.. it’s florescing red !
heat it over a candle in a sppom and it turns pink !
even easer to see when you pour the oil from spoon in some water
Greetings from Munich.. It was a good, busy day here.. many folks out on easter vacation.. but enough here to get stuff done.. like… listening to our cafeteria friend Eva’s new Music Vid “Ohne Dich”
“ohne Dich” bye Eva Kaufmann
later this evening we went out to zum Brunnwart ith a bunch of freinds from all over..
It turns out that tonight is Pesach.. (Passover). / my friend Erik was here so we invented a seder pl;ate
not bad on the spur of the moment.. Home made charoset, fake matzah ,.an egg, parsley, a duck bone. and horseradish !
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were have pesach with family in baltimore this weekend ..
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ok.. my buddy andy jist told me hjes in the bar downstairs.. GFOnna go see him
In Dulles on my way back to Munich.. I had a week at home.. it was a busy wee.. but even so it felt like a vacation. I spent Monday through Friday alone in the house with the dogs.. Diane was down in Endicott with her mom who’d needed a little daughterly help.. I spent the days woring hard, sittign with the dogs and running outside when weather allowed it. I had seeral ventures out.. a meeting, a school visit, a tal for a local business group. Each felt liek a gift because it involved people from ‘here’ . I lived a . pretty simple life.. and very peaceful. DIane came back on friday and we had a wonderful weekend together. we hiked, ran, goofed around. I took the storm windows down which makes it now officially spring . The weather and sounds are much closer now with the windows down.
this short vacation really has me thinking.. i need more of these. ..
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