Today we met up with our very good friends Karen and Jeff. Jeff and I were office mates in england in 1984 and we’ve stayed good friends ever since. He’s one one of my most valuable mentors when it comes to figuring out life. Jeff and Karen moved to MPLS from Rochester a while back (10 years ?).. they live closish to my sister on the Minihahahahahahahaha parkway (I just love saying minihaha). They fixed us a yummy lunch then we all went for a walk along the lakes. It was so nice catching up !

From there we met Mary and headed to our nephew Jakes football game at Edina High School. I had not been to a football game in a very long time.. it was fun watching Jake play and interact with the other kids.  !.. he  even had a great touchdown experience !

From Jake’s game we headed to our niece Ellery’s soccer game. It was senior night for her.. where they celebrated all the senior players. The players all got recognized with a person they chose as an inspiration and a1st grade mentee. Ellery chose her brother Jake to take on the field with her 🙂  

Thats more sports than I get in a decade… it was fun !
We Then  went back to the house for some tasty take out noodles.. then back to moms to sleep 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Diane and I woke early and went for a run around Boom and Nicolette islands in the Mississippi .  These islands are small chunks of land in the river with parks and cute houses… we did about a 5 mile loop.  My mom lives in a really beautiful place..   When My mom woke up we went out for another 3 mile walk around the same area..

 

 

After a quick lunch we headed out to the Minneapolis Arboretum (The Arb).. which was an amazing place !.. 

We ended up with a great Indian dinner at a place walking distance from my moms. Its a beautiful place to walk around at night

Another nice day !
nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I woke up before 4AM today to get to the airport for our trip to Minneapolis. We were heading there to see my mom and sister’s family on our way to  DC.. 

 

My sister Mary  met us at the airport with her old friend Cal who was also visiting. We headed back to Mary’s  and met up with my Mom. We all headed out for a walk in the great fall weather.. Mary  showed us this cool Pencil a friend had made out of a dead tree in their front yard. 

After the walk.. we headed back to my moms where I ended up sleeping for 2 hours.. then back to Marys for great take out sushi..  

 

Really nice to be here with family

nite all, nite sam

-me

Not much happened today.. the most memorable was a zoom new member orientation  to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) .. A group i’ve just joined. Our annual meeting is next weekend and the leaders were welcoming us to the group and letting us know how to find our way around the organization.  I think I’m really going to like being part of this group. there are folks from all sorts of engineering disciplines in the NAE.. and on this call. We heard about he mission of the NAE and how it is organized, and the work projects they take on.. all very interesting. When it came time for questions.. I had to ask if we really needed to where a tie tot eh event next week..

That question came back to haunt me later 🙂 

nite all, nite sam

-me