I spent the day today in the beautiful city of delft. The town synonymous with that cool blue and white tile we all know its a lovely place the city center is full of old buildings , churches and green spaces. Like many parts of the Netherlands , The town is crosscrossed with canals. Im hear talking to the folks at the university about water….. and Water is part of everyones life in the Netherlands… Theres so much i can learn here.

I love the dutch people.. They are so funny and so direct.. There' never any need to guess what they a thinking… I really like that.

Ok.. Time for sleep.. More tomorrow..

Night all, night sam

-me

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Greetings from the end of The runway. I'm here at a Really nondescript airport hotel somewhere near Amsterdam. Let me stress near because it's not really near at all… It's like a $50 cab ride to Amsterdam. The only restaurant within walking distance is a McDonald's. I kid you not. Staff is indifferent, the wireless sucks, there's no food anywhere and the rooms are uncomfortable… But it's my home. And I kinda like it

I said that it was the only hotel room available because its a europa cup football game here every single hotel room in the city appears to be full. At least the ones that charge for a full night

A Lousy hotel was actually a good thing today because I got a lot of work done. I didn't talk to anyone, I only had a few calls and I just worked. I didn't eat either and since I arrived at 8 AM I had not had a bite. Since So around 8 PM I decided it was time to go out foraging.

I took the hotel shuttle back to the airport and took a train into town. Not as bad as it sounds. I walked around Amsterdam kind of lost. It was a beautiful night, raining a little, sort of cold. But it looked so Amsterdam –ish. full of tall beautiful people everywhere speaking a language that i suspect they even don't understand

. There were canals … there were restaurants. There were head shops… And sex shops… And lots of Turkish places. I opted only for the Turkish place. No make that two Turkish places. I had a falafel at one place at the beginning of my walk and some sort of other great vegetarian wrap at another Turkish place at the end of my walk.

I barely made my train home and got to the hotel just before 11. Noticing it was still a little light outside. How cool is that?

Now Time to sleep .. more tomorrow
Night all,night Sam

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Just about to board my flight to Amsterdam. Not much time to blog. Busy day today.. High ooint was dropping in on lunch at the company's new distinguished engineer event. So proud of these folks.. And so good to see so many friends in this years class !

Oops ..boarding.. More from the netherlands

Nita all, nite sam

-me

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Happy mothers day all you mothers out there. I was lucky enough it to spend it with two of my favorite mothers .. diane and my mom (i love you too marcia…it was great talkign to you) ..

My mom and dad metb concord nh to cut down on the driving for both of us. We had a greatlunch at a mexican place then walked around the funky town of concord for a bit. It was great hanging out with them even if just for 3 hours..

When we got home we brought take out Chinese from our favorite place . gabe met diane with flowers and a cake… And we celebrated diane … Who's been such a great mom for our 3 boys and partner for me.

Max sent her a talking mothers day card from his talking trck.. And sam…. Well.. He appeared to me in a dream last night telling me that people had to make things for mom… It was really a crazy dream.. I was happy.. But i woke up crying…

Moms are good things.. Im glad i have them in my life

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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