Here’s a neat story about George Bush taking the Japanese Prime Minister to Graceland because Koizumi really likes Elvis.
"A dream come true", he said.

Not much different than Dan taking me to see David Cassidy.

So I am treated just as good as the Japanese Prime Minister!

Instead of loading up on beer……my family loads up on KETCHUP!!!

I had a job

This was one of the more glamorous days at Entgerview Cable.
DeSoto Bend had done a fish kill a week earlier, and I was out there filming the aftermath.
I loved my job.
I really did.
People often ask me how I ended up in Blair.
I had graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Journalism and Advertising.
That’s right. "Do you want Fries with that?".
Anyway, my first job "in my major" was here in Blair. I was gonna work here just for a while, and then maybe move on after I had some experience.
But I met Dan. And I loved Blair.
My job was very exciting. I wrote news that appeared as type on the TV. Channel 18. I helped sell ads, write, film, produce, and edit commercials that we inserted into local sports events. We filmed baseball, football and basketball games and re-played them on TV.
I learned alot there…..at Enterview Cable.
I made hardly a living wage, lived in a basement apartment with only a waterbed and a few pieces of furniture (which I still have) that my parents let me take.
I ate 1/2 can of soup for lunch and saved the other half for dinner.
I drove a yellow AMC Spirit car that only started when it was above 40* and shimmied if you went over 55. It was a shifter car! I hated getting stuck going west at 90th and Dodge. You had to both hold in the clutch and the brake and hope the car didn’t stall!

Megan is about where I was then.

I saw a quote the other day on a plaque at a store.

"Give them Roots and Give them Wings".

I hope I’ve done that. I hope now that she’s starting her own life, she has roots and wings.
And I hope she doesn’t fly very far away…………