Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies
Away by ten for the 2.5 hr drive. It’s raining and at the summit of the Malahat there was plenty of fog. No pictures, too busy driving.
We meet Pete Val, and Pete’s brother Len and wife Mary at the White Spot. After lunch and some chatting we all go down to the harbour.
And of course there were boats, even in the rain.
We part and head back to Gail’s for pizza and tv
Rained pretty much all day ☔️ ?️
We let go of a lot of coats and jackets we weren’t using to Centre Flavie the other day.
I said goodbye to my Unisys jacket
and to my IBM jacket which I quite liked ?
Over my working career I’ve had a lot of coffee mugs. some came and went, some hung around, some were collected. The collection ends up in a a box , stored away for who knows what. I still buy more and more coffee mugs from trips like to Maui, Frank Lloyd Wright, Route 66, and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, all my current favourites.
So, what to do with the excess? Well, it was give away time! But, before they got donated away, they had their photos taken for posterity. The above photo is mainly my work collection showing the Sperry, Unisys (after the Burroughs takeover of Sperry) and IBM in the e-business days and beyond as well as some software products I was involved with like Sperrylink (early office automation), Mapper & Linc (4GL languages), Lotus Notes & Domino (best software ever and one of the reasons I moved to IBM as they bought the Lotus Corporation ). Somewhere I have some Great-West Life (now part of the new Canada Life) coffee mugs but they didn’t make the photo shoot. Days gone by, all just a photo memory now.
On Friday as I was walking back to the office to change for the ride home a co-worker informs me that the bike cage has been broken into and his bike has been stolen! A few more steps and I see that my bike is still there, the only bike way in the back of the cage, right where I left it and still locked.
Some people have no respect for property and are obviously quite brazen. The robbery was in the middle of the afternoon, in a busy area, under a security camera, and locked in a full cage. Today I lear that the stolen bike was not locked to the rack inside the cage. The guy thought that being in a locked cage would be enough. The rest of us are just a little more paranoid an apparently justifiably so. We lock up inside the cage as well.
It’s been a while since I’ve been in Toronto on business but this afternoon I flew in for four days of education with Agfa for a project I’m working on with two other team members. The flight down on Westjet was uneventful except for the guy in the middle seat who thought he owned the armrest and couldn’t figure out why the TV control buttons were not doing anything for his screen, while mine was flipping channels like a bandit. He even tried it twice, but I didn’t have the heart to tell him what was wrong. Guys that technically challenged probably shouldn’t watch any more TV. I slept off and on and listened to a couple of podcasts to pass the time.
After a long wait in a taxi line and a short ride we’re at the hotel. We’re staying at the Radisson Airport and the rooms are quite nice and we hit the local Kelsey’s for dinner. Over dinner I got to know my team mates a little better as they are both new on the project and work on different areas that I do. Now I’m back in the room watching a little TV, without any help from my seat mate! It’s warmer that Winnipeg at +4, but raining. No matter, we’re stuck at the hotel without a car, so It will most likely be work and sleep for most of the week.
Radisson’s have sleep number beds, so I’ll get to check it out for a few days. Since we’re looking at a new bed for home and I know somebody who can get me a great deal on a bed!
