Tuesday, December 11, 2018

It’s like de ja vu all over again...

Yes, I love that line from Yogi Berra (rest in peace) as well as most other of his famous non sequitor lines. Today it is appropriate as I find myself on an early morning NJ Transit train heading from Hamilton Station to NYC.

It’s been almost five years since I stopped doing that daily 4+ hour commute by car, train, subway, and foot. I don’t miss it but going to NYC is still special. Nothing like it for people energy.

But I am only traveling up for the day to be on-site at the Workday Empire State Building office. It doesn’t make sense to come regularly as I don’t interact with others normally and I spend my day on Zoom with colleagues and customers. Home office is great for that.

The biggest news lately is that I took delivery of a Tesla Model 3 on Friday and welcomed myself to the future. It really is an amazing engineered, designed, and built mobile technology platform. About 30 minutes of driving I really never want to drive an internal combustion engine powered car again. It is that good!



Nice looking, too, right?

And yes, I chose white with white interior. Even more futuristic looking. The minimalistic interior, AKA no gages, disks, knobs, or switches is accented by the stark monochromatic colors. Just white and black.

As far as where In headed today, this is the view



All four sides of the Empire State Building. Not bad for a company aspiring to become a great company.

And here is photo taken from the train just before going through the tunnel.



Empire State Building is behind the tree.

OK, going to post this lest I get busy and don’t get back to finish. More tales to come...

So heading back home on the train. Here is a picture from the 49th floor of the ESB looking south to downtown with Statue of Liberty in the harbor.


A little hazy but a beautiful view. Pretty inspiring just to work in that building for the day.

Now it’s dark so the only thing I want to see is Hamilton Station followed by my home, family, and Maddie dog.

Here they are in turn.


Goodnight.