Woke up today and could not speak at all. Between my four talked yesterday and allowed night in a bar I completely wore out my speaking voice. It was fun being quiet at least for half a day.

Started to day early when my new friend Niklas and I went for a nice mid range run… This is what it looks like here at 7 AM

We then had a very cool visit to Ossur. A company that makes very advanced prosthetics. They had such an amazing collection of inventions and the most amazing manufacturing facility. They had all sorts of machinery for dealing with carbon fiber. The people there were amazing… Brilliant and nice.

I had a really wonderful roundtable with the technical team…

We then went back to Origo for a nice lunch… It was beautiful looking out over the ocean… You could see the glaciers a rainbow and I helicopter in about practicing Ocean rescue from the -2°C water

I had a great round table with the technical team at or ago… And use that as an opportunity to test drive the new version of veremin, The video theremin that my friend Va is helping me rewrite. I’m gonna put it out open sores pretty soon is soon as Van ads a few more features. He’s been absolutely amazing. I think you’ll like it. Here’s a group of people playing that. They didn’t need any coaching

After that I went back to the hotel and caught up with work back at home. There’s so much going on there… I worked another full day. It’s almost like all time being in Munich been over here.

Around 830 Niklas and I went and I had a simple Vietnamese meal a few doors from the hotel.

It was kind a tough saying goodbye to him in the lobby… He has an early plane tomorrow. He such a great guy and was such a great host

OK… I’m gonna try to get some sleep… More tomorrow

Night all, nite Sam

– me

Greetings from Rashik… I had a very good day here in Iceland. I gave four talks which all went pretty well. Interestingly the biggest with 500 people in the audience the audiovisual system failed and I had to go ahead without charts from halfway on… It was my talk on play and I was just on the part of pushing through failure so it could not have been better timed.

I managed to keep going without skipping a beat and I think the audience appreciated that I ended on a new Icelandic turn that I’ve learned to love which is

“þetta reddast” (Note that first thing is not an IR it’s in Icelandic letter that’s sounds more like “TH”)

It means something like “it will all work out”…

And it did

Nite all, nite Sam

Greetings from Reykjavik Iceland . I’m here to see some clients then heading to Spain to give a talk. Iceland is interesting.. kinda bleak in a nice way

One weird thing was waking up to a new government landscape . Same thing happened to me in November 2016 . I took off from California and woke up to trump as president

This time the news was better.. but not that great . The next few weeks will show us what it will be like

Living in th mystery !

More tomorrow !

-night Sam, night all

-me

I’m on my way to Iceland right now for work. This is after the longest time in the United States I’ve spent in more than three years. I’ve been in this country since the beginning of August… It’s more than three months. It feels kind a good both to have been here that long and to be visiting somewhere else after so long

The better g news for today is of course the election s . I really hoping the country starts to change course . I’ll be flying all night so I won’t know what happened until i land . Thanks s what happened to me in November 2016. I landed to a completely different world than unexpected . Not sure what to explain expect tonight

I got to vote with Diane today. We never get to vote together.. so that was fun ! We thought it would be quick but the polling station at the middle school was full of our friends .. nice !

Ok.. heading to my flight

Let’s all hold our breaths !

Nite all, nite Sam

-me