Happy birthday to me. !. I’m a prime number again (53 ! )   .many folks think I’m older/// but i rationalize it this way.. if I can’t act mature.. at least I can look mature 🙂 .  I’m very happy to be this age. I love many people and feel loved in return. Can’t ask for more than that.. !  Here I am about 52 years ago.. hey.. I’m still smiling !!!

I’m celebrating the first birthday I can ever remember away from home. I miss my family.. both talked to Diane and the boys today.. and heard from lots of freinds from all over the place  (Thanks !!!) . It helps that I’m in a very cool place. I’m at a work meeting in Goa on the western coast of India.. I spent the day with a group of about 40 folks from my company..Some I know.. some I’ haven’t seen in years and some I’ve never met.. We had some really good technical discussions.. Then we met some very cool folks from another company for dinner. It is really fun and fascinating talking to folks from a completely different work culture..These guys are very smart and aggressive and are growing fast. I had some great conversations comparing and contrasting our two companies’  philosophy’s  and cultures. There are many, many areas of common ground.We’re going to be all working together for the next couple of days here and I’m really looking forward to it.

 

I’m also looking forward to another long run on the beautiful beach behind the hotel. This place is famous for it’s unspoiled beeches. In the 70s it was a major world-wide hippy hangout. I read a pretty interesting book on that a few years back called ‘Goa Freaks’ Being here I can certainly see the appeal of moving here and just hanging out.. It’s a paradise.

I placed a coupe of SamStones on the beach.. I always feel Sam .. I feel him even more strongly on  Birthdays , hand holidays. I guess that’s natural.. but.. it’s so hard sometimes..

Hey yoganauts.. can you read this guys shirt ?

I came back to my room just as a beautiful slice of chocolate cake was arriving to my room.. complete with candles and a knife wrapped with ribbon. It turns out that this nice lady at the hotel desk happened to notice that today was my birthday when she saw my passport at check-in this morning.. How nice is that ? Not only that but one of the servers at dinner brought me a happy birthday veggie finger food plate after some guys sang happy birthday.. But wait.. there’s even more..

New friend Monica brought me a vintage Univac discreet transistor logic board from her husbands collection as a birthday present

I just called Diane again and she helped me eat my cake .. she sang happy birthday as I blew out the candles.. A virtual birthday party. Nice way to end the day

 

OK.. lots of interesting stuff comng up these next two days .. and I only have had 3 and a half  hours sleep in the last 24.. so I’m  goign to sign off. Thanka again for all the good wishes today.. it means so much to me.. !

nite all, nite sam

-me