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One really does meet the most interesting people on trains. Tonight, my dinner companions were:
- M, a lawyer representing the state of Florida in efforts to recover money from the BP oil spill, on her way to Washington
- J, her husband, a former CTO of a British engineering firm
- R, a former insurance businesswoman who had spent 21 years on the board of BP, now splitting her time between Florida and New York
Go back and read those again if you missed the entertaining part. Seriously, I am not making this up. Topics of discussion included the history of computers (R learned to program in 1957 on an IBM 650), science fiction literature, the differences between American and British corporate cultures, similarities between London and New York, theater, and at least a half dozen other things that I've now forgotten.
Only slightly relatedly, St. Augustine is a lovely city, full of history and shops and interesting wildlife, and I think I will have to go back sometime, preferably when I can spend a little more time there and have less of it taken up by a (really quite excellent) family wedding.
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