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[kirkcudbright]

1) Rode the motorcycle up to UNH to retrieve one of our systems from their test lab. Then down to Nashua, later home. 150 miles on the motorpickle, and I can say I much prefer the 2-lane country highways to the 8-lane freeways. For one thing, it's just not comfortable above 60mph - I feel like I'm getting blown all over the place.

That bit of I-95 through NH is also a toll road, which means I had to get my glove off (ultimately with my teeth) while inching forward in line, to get my $2 out. Going to Nashua, I took US3 through towns and villages, rather than take the Everett Turnpike and having to repeat the ordeal for the 75¢ toll.

b) Spent most of the afternoon cleaning my office. Threw out a metric buttload of crap, mostly paper. I finally ventured into one of the boxes I brought from FTP, seven years ago. There was stuff there from FTP, but also from MIT (16-14 years ago), UMass (22-16 years ago), and even high school (22 years ago)! I found a 7-page hand-written fragment of a French paper on the history of Nova Scotia and the Acadians. I couldn't write such a thing today, but I didn't have much trouble reading it.

I also found the 1993 FTP staff photo. (I know it's 1993, because I also found the newsletter in which it was reprinted. Headline article was on the appointment of Dave Zirkle as president/CEO.) Several are dead, a couple are independently wealthy, at least one has run for elected office, and most are still plugging away, dealing with advancing bellies and receding hairlines.

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[quietann.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the photo. I recognize at least 10 people in it, even though I didn't meet any of y'all until almost 4 years later. I'll have to get deguspice (front row, third from the right) to name folks for me.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

You would have recognized me as well, except I stayed inside during the picture taking. I was annoyed about all the fuss at the time, though now I sort of wish I was in it...

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

I also failed to find Phil, Josh (current cow-orkers), or Margaret (recent cow-orker), all of whom were working there at the time. I showed this to Cormac (front row, next to Arnoff), and he nearly fell off his chair laughing).

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

is it just me, or was it obvious to others which one was you (kirkcudbright) even in the tiny version of the picture? i think there was something about the face shape -- and not even the 1993 hair color -- that i was able to spot from "a distance"...

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

Hmm, don't know if I would have picked me out from the middle of the small pic. But yes, the 1993 hair - I was blond, but I got over it...