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Monday night – behind

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I had a day that would be very hard to describe here.. so I won’t even try.. Suffice it to say that I spent the day beside myself.. Not as ‘in distress’.. but as in ‘my brain and my body were displaced’.. I had the strong feeling of being out of my body.. or … to be more precise .. about 6 inches behind my body for nearly all of the day.. in fact.. i still have it. I’m blogging from approximately 6 inches further back than  physical body that is typing these words.. 6 inches may not seem like much.. but it’s a bit like driving from the back seat of your car..everythign seems a bit further away.. a bit slower.. and a bit more quiet. Not unpleasant really.. just strange.. The extra six inches is giving me a muted dreamy way of going through the world.. It’s a perfect psychophysical metaphor for how behind I’m feeling right now.. Everything is  going pretty  well  in my life .. though I am always feeling a little behind.

I’m going to bed tonight not knowing If I’ll wake up caught up. directly in my body.. or wake up even further back.. …I’ll just have to be surprised and see !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Sunday night – Easter

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Good day today but feeling somewhat blue anyway. I think holidays still ( or will always) come with a fair bit of sadness. We had a great brunch with friends in the morning . Then our good friends Kevin and Betsy dropped by with their daughter Megan who’s checking out uvm. We spent a great afternoon catching up with them… Then we took a good walk showing them around downtown.
Now I’m trying to hear back up for the work week and I’m having a load of technical trouble with my laptop. I wasn’t able to blog on it hence this short post from my phone.

I think my jet lag is catching up with me so I better sign off. Hope everyone had a good holiday

Nite all, nite Sam
-me

Saturday night – Missing Dylan

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Tonight is the second night of passover.. a night we ask.. “why is this night different than all other nights’ .. Tonight that question has a much different significance to us. One year ago today our good friend Dylan Peters died.

 

Dylan had been in  a car accident 3 days before . As he left this earth, he gave of life to four others t through the donation of his strong, young organs. Dylan was an amazing guy.. funny, athletic and smart. He’d been one of Sam’s best friends. They grew up together on the mountain learning to spin through the air without fear. When Sam died. Dylan stepped in like a brother to Gabe.. He helped Gabe grow as a rider..  and as a person.

Dylan.. it is so hard to believe that it’s been a year.. I can still remember your goofy antics.. like  the time you ate a whole ball of wasabi on a dare when you Gabe and me went out for sushi.. or smuggling candy into the room  for Easter at nationals in Colorado after you won the national slopestyle in your age group.

It’s been a hard year for everybody wiht out you.. your folks, your brother, your sister.. for Gabe.. and for us. Your still very much part of all our lives…

 

 

Me miss you Dyl… RIP

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Friday afternoon – heading home

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I’m in Frankfurt airport now on my way home  My meetings originally scheduled for today actually got pushed in to yesterday.. which is allowing me to come home a day earlier… very glad..now I won’t miss Gabe’s lacross game !

This  week has been REALLY full and interesting . I’m enjoying getting to know the people and landscape of Eastern Europe again.. I hadn’t been in Slovakia, Hungary or Slovenia in over 30 years..They’ve change so much. All were cool and interesting places full of very smart people.. The countryside was beautiful in Spring green… even some flowers this early in the year.. lots of opportunity here. Even with the economy in question, the sense of growth here is strong.

Andrej’s going to help me remember what we did this week.. but here’s my quick recollection of our 1600KM drive…

Sunday – Vienna.. hung out with my host family from 1979-80 year abroad.. great to reconnect. Worked late, 5 hours sleep.

Monday – drove to Bratislava, 3 media interviews,one meeting with university professors,  one university talk, two employee meetings, drove to Budapest, had dinner with old freind Zoltan, caught up on work , 5 hours sleep

Tuesday – meetings in Budapest 2 (or 3) media interviews , 1 employee meeting, one university talk, drove to porterocz slovenia – arrived late, skipped dinner, worked on talk, 4 hours sleep

Wednesday – presentation for 1000 clients, meetings with clients all day, 5 media interviews, drove to Ljubljana one ieee/University talk – dinner with freinds. 3 hours sleep

Thursday – ealry morning flight from Ljubljana to Kracow poland, Quick lunch with freinds, then three back to back employee meetings, and one media interview. Quit dinner in town with Andrej..

Friday.. first real sleep of the week (8 hours !)  changed return flight.. now heading home..

ok.. gotta run

they’re boarding.. glad to be heading home

nite all, nite sam

-me