Sitting in ohare airport ready for my flight to white planes. Really good meeting today with some very smart people. we were on the seventh floor of a building and that gave me a good perspective on how Chicago differs most from vermont..
Its flat !!!
It was pouring as we drove to the airport but has miraculously cleared all of a sudden..
Hey.. I thim were boarding.. More tomorrow…
Nite all, nite sam
-me
Im sitting in the white planes airport crammed into a small room with about 400 other people whos planes are delayed.. Its like the old bangalore airport, but the food in the waiting room isnt as good, and the folks aren't as cheerful
Im down here for a series of work meetings.. The most improtant of which was with 60 kids 12 and under.They were all visiting Armonk as part of 'take your kids to work day.' It was like take your kids to work in any other site.. Except that all the kids owere in pinstripe suits.. (Not !).. Actually the kids were great.. Hey were the to see a couple of talk, my electricity shpiel and some other very cool stuff.. Like these birds of prey.. (The bird handlers husband is an ibmer !)
I’m down in Armonk for the night.. with a show and meetings tomorrow here. I’m staying in my favorite hotel in the world. The IBM Learning Center.. it’s part prison, part monastery and part luxury hotel.. It is a strange time capsule of a time that never really existed when men and women went on business trips and worked studiously through the nights on reports for the next day (as I am doing now) ..
The hotel is divided into 6 ( think) stone buildings spread across a beautifully wooded and mysterious shady campus. Eahc building is filled with small stone cells with just enough room for a bed, a desk and a chair.. Each floor has a ping pong and pool table that is never touched as far as I can tell…. there are wonderfully soft bathrobes to add a little comfort to the austerity,..
A couple of years back I was here on Dec 23rd.. I realized I was the only person in one of the buildings.. I was so sure that I went around and knocked on every door.. sure enough.. no one home.. .. So .. what does one do when you are the only one in a spooky hotel building ?
You make a spooky movie by putting a sheet on your head and film yourself running around the halls…
or at least that’s what I did ..
nite all, nite sam
-me
Drove down to boston just to record a short video for a work project.. Lots of driving, but fun nonetheless. OI spent the way down on friend/work calls (glad to say the two are mostly mixed).. had a nice evenign with my folks.. then back by 4PM.. without missing a work meeting. Not much to report on my day except for one very cool weather event.. Around sharon vermont the sky durned dark grey and my car was pelted with marble zied hail.. it was lie being inside a trash can while soemone hammered on it.. I had to hang up the phoen since I could no longer hear.. THe sky was streaked with coud to cloud lightning that was so dramatic, everyone’s btake lights came on with ever strike. The whole thing lasted less than 3 minutes.. and by the time it had passed .. the 91 degree air befor had becoem 68 degree air !.. Wowo…
Only wish it had stayed cool.. !
more tomorrow.
night all, nite sm
-me
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