I had not seen Mark in over 5 years. Thankfully, he was able to take some time off his super busy schedule to trek it to my hotel to have a coffee in the morning. It was incredibly great to see this great human being. And also to reflect on the learnings from the time we worked together and ever since.

Also picked up some tips on my new hobby – bicycling! He has been doing that for the better part of a decade and a half.

Natasha and I met a few times over the past few years after that summer in 2008 when we met in a running trail. There was that time when I came out of an airport I was transiting thru to meet her and her mom. The last time was when Sharmila and I met her in Doha on our way back from Jordan.

Met her this morning during her visit to Atlanta. After all these years, you would think I would at least know her name. No! Found out that her first name is Carmen. And there is a very interesting history of why she goes by “Natasha”.

But the best part of the morning was meeting her younger son Matthew. Incredibly well put together, I had a very mature discussion with this rising senior. Our topics varied from taking a year off for backpacking to how we did programming in the 80s (what is a computer card? 🙂 ).

Hope to meet both of them again as they swing by Atlanta once more towards the end of July. I need to finsih up some of the loose ends of our discussions with Matthew.