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friday night – samstones

Another busy day.. not much new .. still confused about my future.. looking for clarity.   I did get a nice break midday when I went to friend Pete’s 25h IBM anniversary. His actual service anniversary was last Summer.. but his bosses.. Zahi and Gopal drove up from NY to take Pete out to lunch in honor of the milestone.. Kerry, Dave H and I got to tag along .. It was really nice. We all told pete stories . I even made a little Pete glossary to translate his highly customized english..

One thing I put together was a set of anagram for ‘peter osler’ .. It’s a pretty good scrabble hand.. eg

Peter’s Role

The rest of the day was in meetings. I had one bright spot when someone sent me a link to a new article on the front page of EETimes today which was bout my talk last monday. It made me happy because I think this article and the last may get even more engineering folks out doing outreach.

I got home around 6 to find my folks had arrived. It was really nice to see them. It was particulaly nice to have htem up tonight becaue we had a party to make SamStones.. Diane made cheese and choclate fondue.

 

Luke and Gabe were accidentaly dressed the same.. when guys do that.. it’s cool.. when girl’s do that I think it’s a disaster. no ?

Adah liked the chocolate !

We had the bottle of champaign my folks had sent us in Califrornia.. so we used it for a birthday toast for me..

Midway through the night we called Deb and the kids in Chile .. It was great letting them see all their freinds here.

Between us we managed to make a shole 50 pound box of clay into SamStones… Which is great because we were running low.

Diane got soem really beautiful roses from her folks.. I wanted to get a picture of them.. so they can see how nice they are.. and how nice Diane is !

OK my freinds.. time for sleep.. lots to do tomorrow. Nite for now. Nite Sam
-me

Thursday night – recent samstones


Tough day… lots going on at work ..takes much out of me some days…
Not much else new to report so I thought I’d highlight the last two weeks of SamStones’ placements. We’ve hag some great new locations including two in Manchu Pechu in Peru (only one listed below.)

Here’s one of them from our friends Uwe, Anna,  Lara, and Finn

This is from my friend Fulvio in Rome.. He placed the stone in a place that’s very special to him
My friend Carl’s friend Linda placed this stone in a park in Borne

Carl placed this stone in a firework shop in Beijing

A women I met at Burning man placed this stone in Tanzania

a Frind of a friend of Sam’s placed on in   a sacred site in Bhutan

It’s amazing where that boys spirit has flown.. no.. That’s all I have energy for tonight. Goodnight my friends !  Goodnight Sam!
-me

Wednesday night – I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

Diane and I are home again in VT. after a great couple of days in SF at ISSCC. It was fun getting away from hear.. at the same time I was so excited to see Gabe this afternoon that I hung up on a work colleague to go give him a hug.  

We landed in BTV around 10.. then I worked soled until we headed up to Bolton for night riders. We ran into Kristin and Sydney both wearing Gabe’s clothes.. They looked like Gabe Clone… not Gabe Cohn.

Here’s the real deal, just for comparison..

It was raining like crazy out.. so Diane and I only watched the first couple of runs.. We were getting soaked so we headed inside. I started to bum french fires off of friends.. until Even and Ellis conspired to make me a mustard loaded frie. This is in retaliation to the mustard filled twinkie that I once made for Evan.. They say that revenge is a dish that’s best served cold.. but no one ever said that about french fries.

We sat up in the lounge waiting for the Night Riders competition to come to a soggy close.
As we were sitting there, this Bob Dylan song came on the music system ..

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Bob Dylan:  My Back Pages:

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
“We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I
Proud ‘neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
“Rip down all hate,” I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient ..history..
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, thought, somehow
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Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
“Equality,” I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard
when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Thursday night – I think

I think it’s Thursday night.. but I’m not sure. The days are starting to blur together a bit. We all spend most of our days in our hotel rooms getting ready to start, I don’t know when we’ll start.. but all of us are not wired for hanging around. it’s driving us all nuts… but in a fun way. We all  just got in trouble for drinking wine in the hallway . We need to get out in the wild….
    One other drawback of sitting around waiting in my hotel room is that I have absolutely nothing new to report. Most of my life is being loved vicariously by reading the blogs Diane is writing. It;s so cool to be able to see what is goign on at home. I now understand why folks like to read blogs
    OK.. I’m goign to try an get some sleep. I love you all.. Night everyone..  I miss you Diane. gabe and Max..  Night Sam
-me