One of the interesting things about social networking is how it works even when you don’t  do it. I composed a short blog entry last night on my phone and hit submit.. and promptly fell asleep. It what you don’t do out that there was some error in the pictures I sent and it did not post. I heard from several friends because they were concerned that I had not blogged…it’s pretty funny.. but kind of understandable since I’ve blogged every night for the past 10+ years with the exception of 59 days in 2009  on the tv show.. and 5 days last summer on a silent retreat.

you know you have great friends who acre about you when they watch what you don’t do !

love you all

nite all nite sam

-me

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)