Yesterday seemed liked a weird dream. In Spent the day looking for any sign of normalcy in the world .. and there were a few !

I had a super busy day but diane and i managed to get out for a lunchtime ski over near the shooting club

One other fun thing today as I worked I was uploading the nearly 76,000 photos from my phone into google photos . I’m hopping to use its search capabilities to help me better manage the tons of pictures I take for this blog , etc. it’s been uploading for 2 days so far and about half way done

One interesting thing about googles facial recognition software is that it’s given me about 400 ‘faces so far thatb I have to a sign a name to. Many are. Friends, family and coworkers .. bit many are folks that I just met once at events somewhere in the planet . It’s a great brain exercise to try to cosmup with everyone’s name and. Story ..

Doing that brings each of them to mind which is fun

It’s like getting to meet them again for a little bit whiteout leaving the couch. !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I can’t Believe this is happening in our country…

I I’m very hopeful that this is a wake up call for everyone. I’m watching the ratification of the electoral college votes… And I hope I am seeing Are coming together around this craziness… Time will tell

Believe it or not… I’m more optimistic than I’ve been in months

Let’s pull together !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

How much to report today… Watching the Georgia election… Don’t want to watch but can’t turn away

One interesting thing I tried today was a Christmas present from GabÉ… It’s called a “mint thing”… It’s a strange mint flavored cold brew coffee with oat milk thing…

Just like life… Yummy but weird!

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

I went back to work today… And about mid day I realized that I was starting my 40th year at IBM… My actual work anniversaries in until August but still that’s an incredible number. And I still kind of like it… Which is even more amazing

Today I also started setting up the picture scanner we got over the holiday to start digitizing all of the snapshots we have from when the kids were little… It’s a huge job we have stacks and stacks and stacks of pictures… So we bought a very fast for the scanner. Just in the first pack I found all these wonderful pictures… Just sharing a couple of them here because they make me smile . These are all from 1995 in December

Looking at these make me really happy 🙂

I think we only have about 10,000 to go

Nite all, nite sam