I’m down in Armonk for the night.. with a show and meetings tomorrow here. I’m staying in my favorite hotel in the world. The IBM Learning Center.. it’s part prison, part monastery and part luxury hotel.. It is a strange time capsule of a time that never really  existed when men and women went on business trips and worked studiously through the nights on reports for the next day (as I am doing now) ..

The hotel is divided into 6 ( think) stone buildings spread across a beautifully wooded and mysterious shady campus. Eahc building is filled with small stone cells with just enough room for a bed, a desk and a chair..   Each floor has a ping pong and pool table that is never touched as far as I can tell….      there are wonderfully soft bathrobes to add a little comfort to the austerity,..

A couple of years back I was here on Dec 23rd.. I realized I was the only person in one of the buildings.. I was so sure that I went around and knocked  on every door.. sure enough.. no one home.. .. So .. what does one do when you are the only one in a spooky hotel building ?

You make a spooky movie by putting a sheet on your head and film yourself running around the halls…

or at least that’s what I did ..

nite all, nite sam

-me