Greetings from Apartment 4 in the heart of chinatown. I’m trying an airbnb I may use while down in the city. It’s not bad.. but not close enough to work I think 

 

I had an interesting day.. lots of new things ot process. I did manage to eat both breakfast and lunch on the same bench in Kendal square. I met my good friend Rene for Breakfast there.. It was great catching up with  her.. about family, IBM friends, politics, careers, etc. .. 

this square  is kinda cool too 

then at lunch time I found myself on that same bench  eating a salad  from Chipotle. I guess this is my park bench now !

later this evening I met my friends Milan and Henry for dinner

we talked about their cool new AI project.   I think they’re on to something very cool !

,. it’s nice to have them in the area too. Henry is one of my only links back to college I have in the north east 

 

ok.. time for sleep. 

nite all. nite sam

-me

started the day with a foggy run on  the river

Had a really good day at MIT today.. Went and saw some very interesting people at the   Media Lab.. I used ot work there when it was called the Architecture Machine group back in 1979 !  I talked to Areal E abotu the new program they have for designing for Space.. so amazing  !

Also got to see lots of cool art pieces  like these addressable pinboards

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later this evening saw my old friend Lars at Artists Asylem where he now works. Hadn’t been to AA in a couple of years.. lots of amazing peopl elots  of amazing projects 

 

got lost on the way back to the hotel and had to climb up a spooky highway escape ramp to get back on the road I needed.. 

RIght out of Murakami’s 1Q84 !

ok.. gtta sleep now. more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

Good day down in Cambridge.. I tried a different commute today. I left home at 5:30 am and drove to Lebanon NH.. where I caught the Dartmouth coach. That allowed me to work all the way down to south station.. and I don’t need to mess around with parking here in the city.. This might be the easiest way.. 

 

I met soem great new people at work today.. they all just came back from a week workign in greece.. !

spent soem nice time on campus talkign to my favorite prof 

AFter work I wlakd about a mile to my really blah  holiday inn on the Somerville line. I gotta figure out a better hotel situation down here.. I decided to take a run.. and find something for dinner.. it turned out to be a really nice adventure  in a part of Cambridge I don’t know that well. 

saw soem cool stuff 

 

a sa;sa dance in the park 

 

a fountain on the river 

 

some great public art 

 

an outside running and exercise group./ I joined for a short while 

 

and a movie in the park…. where I ate my dinner  (great hummas wrp) 

it was the lion king !> I had to wat unitil simba gets held up by the ape . 

 

ok.. I’ve seen enough !

 

short walk back to my hptel 

still singing lion king songs in my head. 

now time for bed.. more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

We had a tough start to the day. A woman from down the road accidentally hit and killed a stray cat that had been living nearby. It happened on the road near our house. The woman ., Eren or Aron .. was  so sad.. so were we. We took the cat and wrapped it and let it be for a while..  and then later in the day buried it in a nice place at the edge of our yard. The cat was beautiful and peaceful looking as we covered her up .. I felt it in my heart. I went out to the grave and talked ot it a few times today. The woman came by this evening with some flowers. we put them on the small mound wed made for the cat.. we felt both better and worse.. 

soem things just take time

 

nite all, nite sam

-me