Friday night – talking/listening

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This always happens to me.. I’ve just come back from nearly three weeks of seeing new stuff, new people, new food.. etc.. I’ve gone from 100 MPH to zero in just a day.. I’m loving being home,.. I’m even enjoying reconnecting at work.. but I always go through a sort of  ‘focus backlash’ .. when I come back from and adventure.. Nothing seems to make the radar of interest.. everything  is ‘nice’.. quite.. unremarkable.. yet.. somehow I feel compelled to write ,,, I’ve committed to myself to write every day until Nov23.. (which will be 5 years of every night since 3 days after Sam’s death)    But maybe every day doesn’t merit recording..

I was thinking of that today when my freind S. made a blog post on her new blog site inside our company. S made the observation that of the 3000+ blogs inside our company.. most had only single digit readership. I’m sure that trend is echoed  outside the company…. So many people talking.. and not so many people listening. it would be interesting to know how many folks do exactly as I am doing now and spill their guts online every night. with maybe no one reading.. What’s even stranger to consider is that everything we all right becomes part of the permanent record of our culture.. Maybe sometime in the distant future all these words we stick out there will be sifted through by archeologists to extract something about our lives…

they would discover that I had a a really nice and quiet day…

If I knew who they would be, I’d tell them that directly..

gnite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

 

THursday evening – Ahhhhhhhhh

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Ahhhhh.. I’m home.. nothing interesting to report and that’s just SO good for me.. I’ve been out of town for nearly 3 weeks.. .,and had so many adventures…. a day with nothing but flying..and seeing my family is absolute heaven….

My family .. my doggies….. my house… my desk…. I don’t need anythign else..

 

Friends from afar showing up tonight.. enjoying the brief moment of ‘nothing going on’…

 

hope its the same for all of you

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Wednesday eveing – Homeward bound / small world

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Greetings from Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires. Gabe and I are waiting on our Red eye flight back to the US.. We had a great last day down here.. Last night Gabe and I took the Subte out to Old Polermo and met up with our freind Hannah B. We all went out to a really cool Peruvian restaurant..  It was so great !!

Aftwerards we wnt back to Hannahs ot meet her roomies and her house mom.. Thay are all great.. and so was the place !

Today Gabe and I went for a run .. then we took a bus out to the colorful area of Boca.. It’s near Boca stadium.. we even saw Diego Meradonna’s sar in the pavement outside the statdium..

 

We then walked aroudn the cool old town of Boca

Ooops.. we’re boarding .. so I need to go. but before I do.. we had the most amazing small world conicidence while in oca.. We were walkign aroudn a small set of stores when someone called my name. it was my freind Fernando from Millbrook New York.. Fenernando and I work together.. and have been tlakign about organizing a trip down to South America.. Th efact that we were both here.. in BA.. In that same store is a total one in a billion cooincidence.. he didn’t know I was here.. I didn’t know he was here..

 

His daughter even lives in Winooski and goes to UVM. !.. We spent a nice hour getting to now Fernando’s family … He and his wife Diane met while she was in the peace corp and he was living in Columbia !  We had a beer and some snacks.. and got to watch with soem Tango folks.. Gabe, Fenrnando and Fernando’s daughter even got to pose with them !

Ooops.. boarding now.. gotta run.. Here’s gabe prepping for a 9 hour plane flight.. UGH…

it’s bbeen such a great trip .. It’s been so much fun hanging out with Gabe..

OK.. more tomorrow

note all, nite sam !

-me

Tueday evening – borges

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Woke today to better weather.. We packed up and left our nice hotel in Iguazu.. My camera has not really survived the trip.. the viewfinder is out.. and the pictures are still fuzzy.. or maybe it’s gabe who’s fuzzy.. We made our sleepy way to the airport only to find a nearly 2 hour delay on our flight *Aerolineas strikes again !)

We finally got on our flight and had an uneventful flight back to BA>

First oreder of bysiness in the hotel was to air out our wet and dirty laundry.. yesterdays deluge has our clothes all damp and smelly..

 

We hung them in the window to dry.. and then noticed you could see them from the street..  !

Gabe took me on a nice tour of his old haynts.. we walked to teh subway (Subte.. prounounced soup-day)

 

and headed down to gabes old school and favorite deli for a quick lunch

 

Nice…

 

Here’s Gabe’s school

 

And across the street the ‘American Deli’.. nothing American about it.. great empanadas though !!

From there we took a long walk back on the Florida pedestrian street.. the other night it was deserted. but during the day it was packed !

Then we stopped at gabes favorite ice cream shop.. dulce do leche and chocolate.. yum !!

We were eating there when Diane texted me to tell me about the earthquake on the east coast.. Wow !..

Did anyone see any damage ? Sounds like it was a big one !

On the way home we wandered into a large upscale shopping mall.. we climbed to the top story to find a set of art galleries named for one of my favorite writes jroge luis borges.. .who’s from BA. He was one of the worlds great authors of metaphysical mysteries and psychologically dark and twisting short stories.. (The Aleph, The Zahir. and my favoriteTlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.. a story abotu folks writing a complete encyclopedia of a made of place.. just to mess with people..

 

Gabe and I then came back to the hotel and both fell asleep for a couple of hours.. we’re both pretty road weary.. We’re meeting hannah B ronight for dinner at 10L30.. so we better start waking uop.

TOmorrow we head home.. it’ sbeen fun !

 

nite everyone.. note sam

-me