Nov 1 is either All Souls’ Day or the Day of the Dead.. I’m going to gout and pour one out for Sam as soon as I’m done writing. He’d like that

Today turned out to be nice and quiet . We were flooded in. Nearly all the roads out of our town were under water .. all schools were closed in this part of the state

It was actually pretty devastating. Part of sugway toad nearby washed out as did tower road near ibm . Check it out

https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Heavy-rain-outages-reported-throughout-state-564208281.html

Ok .. gonna go have a drink with Sam

Nite All, nite Sam

-me

Halloween night… Always our kids favorite night. Always a day of real nostalgia for us. I remember so many nights shuttling the kids to some neighborhood which actually had houses that were close enough together to actually get candy. I would wait back and take all the peanut butter cups!

The last several years we’ve been taking our young friend Finn out trick-or-treating. This year Finn is nine. He went as a shark… So Diane made us some really funny lifeguard outfits

It was pouring rain… But we weren’t the only ones braving the elements. That said it was almost 70° out and tomorrow is November. That’s like 30° warmer than it should’ve been. I wasn’t complaining

It was fun tromping around Hinesburg… Candy selection was good

GabÉ called in from Portland to say happy Halloween

The early part of the day was busy too. Lots of work stuff going on. But I took some time to go to Vermont business Council talk on AI by Tim Urban which was very entertaining and very good

I Had lunch with seven ibm new hires . It was so great meeting them. We’re scheming for something fun we can do together… Hopefully around outreach

Now I have to get out of my lifeguard costume and dry off. I have a funny feeling that the red sharpie Diane used on the costume is now what color I am underneath.

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Just back from a quick round trip to Albany. I went down to help out my friends Jeff and will cash and Cindy with a major event for their hardware AI center. It was a really great event. I was able to talk to a whole bunch of folks from my company and from other companies. I gave a talk which went well.… I felt good to be around a bunch of hardware people again. Least I understood when they cracked a joke 🙂

Time for bed !

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

We had 15 people here for yoga tonight… Diane had decorated yoga space with pumpkins and spooky lights and had a great playlist with crazy spooky music… It was pretty fun. Dinner was great we had bright orange spicy peanut butter squash soup. I love these Tuesday gatherings

Driving off early tomorrow morning so I’ve got to get some sleep. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me