Let's go back to last year,,, if I can even remember that long ago,, he I am an old guy and the memory is the 1st thing to go,,
The best part of the year was a 2nd Grandson,, there is nothing better,,, he is such a happy boy, and watching my 1st Grandson grow up,,, he is so smart, and quick witted,, make me very emotional to think about both of them.....
SO the speculation was that the company that I work for ,, umm worked for was to be sold,,, and that BIG BLUE was gonna get out of the Semiconductor business,,, and sure enough this other Company GF Bought it,, The transition was to take place in May,,, that got moved out to JULY 1st,,, and we we re all no longer Beamers,, we were Owned by a company Call Mubadala,,,solely owned by the county of Abu Dhabi.... WHJO cares we still have a job,,,, and I will say that the company bent over backwards for us old Beamers... SO far so good,,,, and and I retired from IBM,, ME retired,, wow, now I feel old,,, except for Collecting that Retirement check every month,,,let hope that keep going for a long time...
Much of 2015 was blur,,, between awaiting the transition in the business, and then doing it,,,
Completed work on my Son's house , although he is getting the roof replaces,, we finished the Siding Outside,, the Stone work inside, refinished the Pool and repainted it, sone #2 got 2 more Dogs,,, Cant wait to go out and visit them again,, maybe March or April or maybe for my ,,, ugh 60th
My daughter bought a house,,,a beautiful place on the Island, nice neighborhood, cute place mostly redone by the previous owner,, and her and her S.O. have made it their home, they seems very comfortable there ,,,, It make me proud to say that all three of my Children own homes,,, investing in them selves and in the future of this country,,. many other things young people do these days and not to say that that it wrong, cause maybe ot right for others to be Traveling the world, or spending their money in Cars, or Merchandise,,, but owning a home - THAT is an investment in their Future!
Went to few good shows this year, Southside Johnny, Cowboy Junkies, Joe Bonnamassa,,, all excellent,, Junkies we have seen 5 times,,, and this might have been the best show,,, at a place called CLUB Helsinki in Hudson,,, was a good dinner and show
I did 6 weeks of Intraveneous IV treatment to treat a Lyme disease that my Neuro MD thinks is causing the RLS, because my Symptoms don't match up with RLS,,, and I have to admit that I am Cautiously optomistic,,, I am still on 2 meds for it,,, but the "Attacks" are far less, I keep waiting for the Twinges to be an all out onslaught, it has not happened,,, in addition,, my insomnia has eases a bit,,, a bit,,,I still have those nights when I sleep for an hour,,,and then am up all night. But then I have a few night a week that I sleep for 5 or 6 hours, and in the last two years that was a weeks sleep !! so thats getting better,,,
GOT anew IMac,,, a new Subaru Outback,,, really great computer,,, and well its a Subaru,, they just make great cars ,,,, this is like #6 if yo count the kids cars,,,
WE re-watched a show call the Power of Song,, the story of the life of Pete Seeger,,, we actually were at the premier of this film in Rhinebeck a few years ago.If you have never seen it ,, its worth finding it. Shows you the impact one person can have on a community and the world - he started the Folk music movement,,, and made the Newport folk festival what it it today and right here in the Hudson vally ,, wanted to clean up the rive,, someone told Pete that they used to sail boats on this river that were 100 feet long !! called Sloops,,, he got the Idea to build one, and sail it up and down the river, to get people to look at the polution that was taking place in the great Hudson Valley,,,, most people laughed ,, he needed $150k, to build the boat, this was in the late 60's ,, and I don't need to tell you that the Clearwater has been sailing the Hudson for over 40 years,,, a few Ironies out of the Movie,,, they Blacklisted Pete - if you dont know what that means - it meant that he could not appear on TV, his songs could not be played in Radio,,, think about that today,,, because he said it was his 1st admenment rights not to answer questions about who he voted for and who he associated with, and were they members of the Communist party - Joe McCarthy and the House of Rep committe that ruined peoples lives back in the 50s,,,, Anyway , they let Pete sing and tour Schools and colleges across the country - oh yea,,, those Grade school kids are not impressionable,,,, out of this came the End of the Vietnam war the Start of the Folk music movement and the Enviromental movement, and oh yea ,, many of those kids grew into adults that supported those same movements,,, this was a long way around to get to - the Smothers Brothers who had the most successful show on TV at the time went to CBS and said ,, we want to have Pete Seeger on,,, CBS agreed - although the CUT the Song Waist deep in the Big Muddy from the broadcast, there was such an uproar over the censorship that 3 months later he was invited back and play that song agin,,, - in the 90;s they Gave Pete the Kennedy Center Medal of Honor,,, talk about a turn around,,, it proved the lesson of Turn , Turn Turn,,, a Time to Every Purpose under heaven.... I am looking forward into 2016 and beyond to that Season...........
Happy New year,,,, and time of Peace ,,, I swear its not too late,,,
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