I took the last two thirds of the day off… Which I sorely needed. Diane Deb and I drove up to Montréal Late morning to go meet Gabe and Hannah and Olivier and Ian and Maddie for lunch at the restaurant where Matt works.
The restaurant is called Lola Rosa and it’s awesome ! It’s 100% vegetarian and has some pretty exotic stuff like hemp burgers. Matt is now the main cook and really enjoys working there. The restaurant is right outside of the McGill campus. That was the real reason for our visit. Gabe come up a couple of days earlier to go to a Swedish house mafia Show. The plan was for us to meet today and go to work the McGill campus. Which is what we did…
McGill is a huge place. Over 30,000 students. But it did have a nice compact feel to it. It has a great new biology and biochem lab which is what game seems to be most interested in. This is our first college campus visit so it was pretty exciting. All in all we liked it. It was a mix of old and new architecture. Students there seem to be reasonably happy. We got to tour a dorm room which was pretty nice. And there was a Tim Hortons right across the street… What’s not to like?
It was a relatively warm day but they still had quite a bit more snow than we had. I was thinking about how it would be to go to school in Montréal. I was guessing that it was one of the coldest Larger cities in the world. I actually looked it up I believe it is the eighth coldest city on average temperatures. The coldest being Ulan Batar in Mongolia then a city in Kazakstan I believe Helsinki, Moscow Tallin , Ottawa and then I think Montréal. Not too bad but Gabe would be used to it it’s the same weather that we have.
We’re trying to figure out other cool science schools that we can check out. ? I think Gabe is looking for a smaller place in a really nice setting with good science facilities. Any suggestions out there ?
Okay, time for bed… I’m exhausted.
Night all, night Sam
– me
, just got home from the 300 mile drive back from Somers New York I drove with my friend David which was a whole lot of fun. We were both coming back from the IBM fellows meeting in Somers the last two days. The meeting was very interesting in a whole bunch of ways. Some of it was great some of it was strange some of it was…… I don’t even know how to describe. But in the end it was Great being together. These meetings make me realize how much I still have to learn about the company I’ve been in for more than 30 years.
Here are most of us
Here are our friends the bloggers
And for some reason we took pictures of the Indian fellows. Thought it would be too weird to take a picture of the Jewish fellows for some reason.
Anyway it’s freaking home more tomorrow
Night all, night Sam
– Me
I’m down in Tarrytown New York attending IBM fellows meeting. A lot of great brainpower in this room. Well, not in this room actually I’m in my hotel in my brain doesn’t feel so great right now.
Did lots of reconnecting today and lots of thinking and lots of listening. I really love this group of people. I wish I got to see them more. I really feel We can solve almost any problem we can get our heads around. It’s the heads around part that’s always the challenge… LOL
Joking aside, being around people reminds me why I love this company. I guess I really do.
Night all, night Sam
– Me
Greetings from Tarrytown New York. I’m here at the annual meeting of the IBM fellows. I was a premeeting dinner and many of my old friends were there. It’s been a good long while since I’ve seen them. It is so nice to get together and talk over a good meal and some good wine. People like this are the reason that I continue to work for a living.
Oh yeah and there’s the money…
(… Actually, scratch that… It’s not worth working for money)
Night all, night Sam
– Me
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