Saturday, December 19, 2009

Merry Christmas from Snow Land!

Mary and Pat.

We have the continuing white stuff and cold. Real Bing Crosby
landscape. All parking lots are shrinking from ponderous snow piles.

Mary, I am glad you have a comforting lounge chair. I know it's
a real drag to be comfortable in only one place and sleepy all the time.
I bet have you a primary comfort position in that lounge chair as well.
Sounds like the prognosis is for a coupla more months, so don't push it
too hard. Healing is present, just slow.

Pat, two weeks off should be a good settling time for the both
of you.

> The grand experiment in Albany hit a snag with the sentencing of
> the former state senate leader, our primary political backer, to
> multi-year sentencing for fraud. I do not know how deep the
> back-pocket deals go into the university and IBM Alliance structure.
> But I'd be real surprised if it stops with Bruno. The man is 80. You'd
> think that all this is a little excessive. But it is New York.
>
It was just a year ago when Bruno and Governor Patterson and at
least a quarter of the legislature and all their lieutenants drove in
rank-and-file black limos and occupied the central rotunda to usher in
the agreement of cooperation (and a million Federal dollars) with NIST.
(The million dollars was never traced to any of our projects or
deliveries to NIST.) Ah, it feels like Chicago.

> Love, Milt

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