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How about you? Well, um, I don't have that, I don't have that are experience to share Lucky you. I, I do, I do listen to a lot of, you know, I do, I switch the stations a lot because I don't have a cassette player in my car. Um, um. Uh-huh. Uh, uh, however, I, I do, I do like a lot of different forms of music so I swit...
Rap. It seems to be so popular these days. Yeah. Well, I, I don't really have anything against rap music. I, the one thing I do object to about rap music is, is when it becomes militant, or, if it's, uh, violence oriented. Uh-huh. Right. I, I have strong objections to that. Um, actually I listen to, one time I remember...
the, the piece of music, the piece of music was about, I think about forty or fifty years old. And, it was incredible, I mean, the parallel, you know, between it and rap. Right. And, um, you, you listen a lot, if you, if you hear a lot of old gospel, uh, uh, especially well, the black gospel. You know, you will, you kn...
No. Yeah, I guess there was even a, a bit of ruckus caused by the M C Hammer, who's really, you know, Yeah. seems to be the hot one of, of today. He used, um, WILD THING. Do you remember that, that song. Yeah. he used, um, I can't remember who the artist was on that. Jimi Hendrix was the original. Who? Jimi Hendrix was...
And, he, he since then has, has amended that, and paid them his royalties every time the, the song goes on but, Yeah. I don't know it may have, it may have been somebody else, because I think, I think that even Jimi Hendrix did it, I think that was a you know, come to think of it, I think that was a cover version of, l...
They destroyed it. I, I think a good one was, um, there was a Peter Frampton song, Oh, yeah! and, then the cover version, I think, I mean, I thought, was absolutely, it was pitiful. I, I remember seeing the video of it on M T V, and I thought it was hideous. Yeah. I did too. It was, ugh, I didn't like that either. Yeah...
I think it was in high school. Yeah, I think that probably what did it for him was the fact that he was a good stage performer. Uh-huh. He was very good. I remember I saw him in a huge stadium in, uh, Philadelphia. It was in J F K Stadium, if I can remember. Oh man. Hundreds of thousands of people is what it seemed lik...
and you know, I mean, a lot of people they go, they're better than the Beatles, and I'm like, you know, you don't know what you're talking about. No I mean, the comparison made between New Kids On The Block with the Beatles It was just, You can only laugh Yeah, you just sort of, you know, well I guess I can just humor ...
I mean, I like, you know, things like to hear, you know, what they call world music. Which is, you know, using all these natural forms of music and, Like Paul Simon. Like, Yeah, yeah, Paul Simon. Yeah. Well, you know, really that's not world music. But, what, what Paul Simon's doing, I think is, is, is great because he...
The, the best of every type of music. Right. Because, I mean, there are some, I mean, I, I there are some, you know, types of heavy metal that I really like, but, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that I, I completely like heavy metal. No. I, I think, you know, and it's the same way with, you know, world music takes the f...
some of it, it's, they use electronic and acoustic interchangeably, Uh-huh. so, you know, well a lot of the stuff you hear coming from South Africa now, and from West Africa, that's considered world music, because it's not particularly using certain types of folk styles. Right. But, they're, they're trying to make it s...
But, uh, We've talked our five minutes though. Yeah, okay, but, I mean, when I heard his album, I heard it and it was just incredible. I've been listening to that a lot lately. Yeah, I, I listened and, I heard, you know, you hear this guitar, and then you hear the muted trumpet. I me, and you never would think that the...
Okay, well, um, let's see, I, I think there's a lot of people that don't vote because they don't really think their, their, uh, opinion is going to be heard and, you know, there's such a small voice and such a huge number of people in the United States and that, you know, their, vote's not going to make that much diffe...
yeah, Yeah. that's good. I always thought it was back when Anderson was running, I was hoping that things would change and he'd actually get elected and party politics would start going down the tubes, but, um that didn't work. Yeah. Yeah, there's, uh, a lot of extremes on the parties, too, with the you know, the real,...
I'm always amazed at that, that each candidate thinks it's going to be the people that come out that will vote for him, you know. Yeah. That's, that's true. I think in, uh, the Texas governor elections, I think more people turned out to vote against somebody than for somebody, this time. Yeah, well, that, uh, I know th...
Yeah, that's true that the different places in America that, uh, you know, different issues would be a lot more important than say in another place. Yeah, I can understand why, why some of the, the rural areas, the voter turnout isn't as much because it does seem sometimes like the lobbyists in D C are like controlling...
Right, after the war. Uh-huh. That really, uh, Unfortunately that will probably even drop lower, the voters turndown, even more because more Democrats will think that they don't have a shot so they won't even bother turning out. Uh, that's true, yeah. They'll just say, oh, well, you know, the Republicans have this elec...
that's, you know, neither has mine as a matter of fact. And, uh, that's true, they, I think they look at it as, well everybody, the majority of the people think this way, when that's not necessarily true, because, you know, that's what the media says. Well, the majority believes this way so, uh, they don't even bother ...
I guess we've, uh, talked long enough and, uh, that was sort of interesting. Yeah What part of the country are you from? Uh, Washington, D C, Are you really? Uh-huh. Wow. This is, I'm in, from, this is Dallas where I'm at. Oh, okay. The outskirts of Dallas. Well, I figured with Texas Instruments they'd probably have a ...
Um, they , they went through engineering companies, Oh. and, uh, we're communications. I, I work in a communications company. Oh, okay, right. I work for T I so, we saw it on the, uh, T News one day and I thought, wow, that might be interesting. Yeah. sort of different. Yeah. They called me at, uh, ten o'clock one nigh...
Yeah. Yeah. I still haven't figured out what the zero through six days which day is which yet but, I didn't study it that hard so maybe I'll figure it out. Uh-huh. But, anyway, it was nice to talk to you and, uh, sort of meet you, and, that was an interesting topic. Okay. Yeah. Okay, well, if your ever in, uh, D C, com...
Oh, okay. Yeah, right next to Dulles. Yeah. All right, I'll talk to you later Okay. Bye-bye. Bye. Back by that. The, uh, uh, you know there are so many ramifications to this entire thing of woman, how women have changed, Uh-huh. uh, look at them, in England, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, uh, Indira Ghandi , uh,...
And, uh, I don't know whether that's bad or good, it's just a point that I have observed that we, Yeah, I, I, yeah, I, I, I truly believe that, that before that, that we have to address the racial, racial issues in the United States, before we can go anywhere. Yes. Right. Um, because it is so, you know, it's, Uh, oh. H...
Okay. Bye-bye. Okay, uh, what do you think about, uh, the idea of having volunteer service for everyone? Uh, I think that, uh, really it wouldn't hurt most of the young people of the country to have to go and do voluntary service. Uh, and, you know, I mean, there have been so many people that have done it and I've talk...
Right, uh, I, I think if you've been out of school a year, year and a half, before you start to college, you appreciate college more, than someone that just goes right straight into college. The only complication is, is, is how do you fund something like this? Well, a lot of parents fund their children. There are, uh, ...
Uh, I was in the military, and I personally feel if, if they have the draft, that they should draft women as quickly as they do the men. Well, but, the, the issue of, of, of, which, what, what would, what would you find, what would you have them do? You know there are a lot of people around with, there's a lot of unemp...
or go into the, the more depressed areas and help repair the houses. Yeah, in fact, we, we helped with, uh, oh, Help To Help Humanities, and that was a, that was a good experience, but you take the kids out and and a lot of the buildings in downtown areas that, that either need demolishing, or need fixing up, so Uh-huh...
Yes. Mainly I read the Bible these days. That's very good. I do, too. Good, that's great to hear. Uh, and Christian literature. Uh-huh. Uh, I've kind of, I used to read a lot of, uh, novels, but it seems as though if you really want to set a side time to read the Bible and you work and and whatever, uh, that pretty wel...
Uh, a lot of times I do just read magazines and stuff like that for, you know, because I don't have a lot of time, but when I do get to sit down and, and read, I like to read the Bible and I like to read, I read to my daughter a lot, too. Do you? And, uh, I like to read, you know, I have Bible storybooks Uh-huh, uh-huh...
Uh, THIS PRESENT DARKNESS and, uh, uh, I forget the the other, well he, uh, he's also written a lot of children, how old is your daughter. Five. Five, okay, he's written some children's books as well and they're all spiritually, uh, oriented, Oh, really? yeah. What's his name again? Peretti Frank E Peretti, Frank E Per...
Just to read them. Well, that's good. Yeah, oh, they're good, they're great. That's good. And it's like, uh, uh, usually about a family of, uh, archaeologists and the spiritual fights that they get into, like, uh, uh, digging in old ruins, and running across, like, uh, the old gods and things. Uh-huh. Oh Yeah. Oh, that...
my daughter has PRECIOUS MOMENTS collection Uh-huh. and I like that because it's a, it's real easy to, uh, follow for her, you know, uh, gosh, if, if I read straight out of the Bible to her she'd never understand any of it. Well, it's hard for me. That's right It is, it is real hard to, to follow and understand, Uh-huh...
that's right. I really do enjoy it. But, uh, I also, but then on the other extreme I like to read, uh, uh, I guess I don't know, horror, Steven King type books. Uh-huh, yeah, I've read a lot of his, too. The, and I, I like that, that's good fun reading. Yeah. Can't put them down. No you can't, you really can't. They ar...
Uh, there's another guy. Oh, what can, what is his name Oh, durn you would, well you know when you're recording you can't I know Uh, oh, Dean, uh, Kratz, or Kranz or, Judith Krantz? who? Judith Krantz. I know her. Uh, no, it's a guy. Oh, okay. And he, he writes the same thing, though. It's that real, gruesome horror st...
Yeah. That's good. Yeah. Koontz. Uh, his last name ends in a Z, I know that. Yeah, oh, I think I know who you're talking about. Uh, I've seen, I don't think I can pronounce it either, but Yeah, uh, Yeah, I'm in a book club and I think I've seen his books in there Uh-huh. I've never read any of his. But they're real, I ...
it's one of his first books, THE STAND. Yes. That, oh, that long thing. I know it. And that seems like all of his books have kind of come from that, I mean. Yeah, they do kind of follow or, Are similar. You know, that, Uh-huh. I love that book, though. I thought it was great. Yeah, it really was, and I loved THE SHININ...
For some reason that scared me more than anything. Yeah, that is, he just brings stuff alive, you know. Yeah. You could just visualize everything. Uh-huh. That's, And that was a pretty scary movie, too. Yeah, I think they did a pretty good job, but they didn't follow it exactly, Yeah but they did give it, you know, do ...
Yeah, yeah, uh, That's, another big fat one. I did, too. Yeah. Yeah, that was good. I liked, uh, I also liked, uh, CUJO. Did you read that one? Yeah, And, except it broke my heart. Yeah, I'm a dog lover. Me, too And then, uh, NIGHT STAND, is that NIGHT, No, it was, uh, DEAD, DEAD ZONE.
That's one I liked. What? DEAD ZONE. Oh, yeah. That was a, I've read that one, too. That was a real good one. He's written a lot of books. Boy, he just sits down eight hours a day. Just like any other job. I know it. Right, and then he has some under, uh, another name. That he's written. That's right. That one about th...
Richard Bachman. Yeah. He is really interesting. Yeah, he's so prolific. Yeah Ooh, I wish I could do that Oh, I know it. And I have gone back and, after I, I graduated, I read some of the old classics that I just bluffed my way through and have found that I enjoy them quite a bit, too, uh, Uh-huh. I do, too. I love old...
but That's true, but I, That's, that was one of my favorite subjects in school was, uh literature. Yeah, me, too. I used to love those old, good, good old books. Uh-huh. I didn't mind doing that at all Nathaniel Hawthorne is pretty scary himself. Yeah, yeah. I liked, uh, oh, gosh why can't I think of their names, uh, s...
yeah. Uh, well, you know who I'm talking about Yeah. Yeah, those are good old good old books and classics, Yeah, uh-huh. that's right. Right, right. Sure is neat That's why I like to watch that MASTERPIECE THEATRE on channel thirteen, because they'll take a classic and, and, uh, televise it you know, put it into a view...
so it's, it's hard for me to sit down and read, Well, I can imagine. but when I do I just, just love it. Yeah, yeah me, too. Well, I think we've accomplished five minutes so, I think we have, too. Thank you very much. It's good talking to you. You, too. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Well, what is your view, do you consider the Sov...
on the, place has completely turned that much around to where they're not, you know, not what they used to be, Right. uh It's, it's hard to, to know anymore if it's a, a threat one way or another because, uh, it used to be so, much in the past that whatever the top said the rest fell, you know, rank and file in behind ...
you know, the evidence is that, uh, you know, he's, he's let some, some stuff go, you know, the east German situation. Right. It's just the whole thing is so incomprehensible, you know, if I'd have been asleep for five years, and read it in a book, I said, no, no, no, that didn't, couldn't have happened that way. Right...
Even if it is, you know, the best thing in the long run, it just steps on too many people's toes, who are comfortable with the way the situation is. Yeah. Yeah, I, I think, you know, what I'd have to, I, I I guess to answer the question directly, I'm still just a, a little bit, you know, leery of the whole thing. Uh-hu...
Yeah, or, or we can do something about it. Yeah. Whereas, you know, if the Soviet Union would have, who knows what taking over Mongolia or, or something like that, who is really, will we have been more just rhetoric, uh, rather than going in there officially or, you know, physically and try to, to remove them. Uh-huh. ...
Well, this would be like if somebody was elected president of the United States and suddenly took off toward, you know, just some pretty hard by the socialism, Uh-huh. and, uh, you know, the, the reaction, uh, you know, the, the economic, well, the, uh, the social structure of the Soviet Union, you know, it, it's, it's...
you know, a lot of my friends have a taken us down, the stance of, you know, these people are just trying to be free and trying to get away and I'm thinking more of it from a nationalistic, you know, if I'm a Soviet and if part of, you know, south, let's say South Dakota wanted to you know, succeed, am I going to stand...
Well, that whole a, the whole idea if you look at the Russian history and I guess all countries the way it used to be is, the only way to truly protect your borders was to have a buffer. Uh-huh. And that was the whole idea why they had so many buffers and maybe, you know, more and more people are seeing, oh, countries ...
Yeah, well, uh, I, I guess, what they'd have to do to, I really don't know, you know, in, in the, in, you know, I hope that what's happening is exactly the way it appears. Uh-huh. You know, some reason or other, you know, is, uh, it's kind of a strange thing we've been trying to make something like this happen for so l...
you know, and these were all the Soviet economists, us you know, they had some real fancy names for them. Right. Matter of fact when the, uh, yeah, what I read when the, uh, uh, United Nations was setup in, in San Francisco, one of the first things the Russians wanted to do was bring in each one of the, uh, of these, y...
Yeah, exactly. you know, it's all, you can change the name of something but I wonder if it's still, exists. Uh-huh. Although, I've seen some evidence that, you know, the, uh, the Russian soldiers are, well, you, the funny thing there is they're not particularly welcome back home because there's, they're having housing ...
Well, since you live close, I don't know if you know, um, about what Louisville is doing with recycling, or are you familiar with any of that? Well, I know that we have some relatives that live around, like the area in there, Huh-uh. I know they're doing some curbside recycling as a kind of a test there. Yeah. You know...
and they said they moved it just behind. Oh. That's really nice to know, because we were doing the same thing. Because to take it to a Metco , you have to take it when they're open, you know, which is always a real pain. Huh-uh. And so when that thing came up in Wal-Mart parking lot, we thought, oh, this is great. And ...
And really, that's about, that's really about it. Is there anything, any place else that really takes anything other than that, that you know of? Well, I guess, um, down in, kind of in North Dallas, there is a place that will take almost anything. Oh, really. Uh, I don't, we just don't have the room to store all that m...
so. Those milk cartons take up so much room. Oh, they do, too. And they're impossible to crush. I mean, you can't get the down to any size, you know. If you get four milk cartons and that fills up trash bag, you know pretty easily, so. You know, I guess we kind of started recycling after I moved here about a year and a...
Let somebody get something out of it. Yeah. That's true. And they won't raise our taxes. Yeah Yeah . Ha-ha Well, I was kind of hoping with, you know, do you work for T I? No, I don't. I have a friend, of mine told me about this program, is the reason that I'm, No. Yeah. There was a, T I has got this organization called...
It's, you know, T I doesn't give them any money, all, everything is made from that. And they had talked about having a thing like, one Saturday a month, you could come and drop your aluminum cans off from home, you know, Yeah. And I'm kind of like, yeah. I shall, they would do that because at least somebody was getting...
Yeah. I really hope they do that in Louisville. It would make it a lot easier on all of us. Talk to you later. Okay. Bye-bye. So what do you think about it? How are we doing in recycling? Are we, Well, I think we need to do more. I mean, I know I need to do more. They have programs around where you can reach the, uh, t...
and we try to do a lot Uh-huh. but there's still a lot more we can do. Yeah. You know, I don't recycle my newspapers myself, but I noticed in one of the sales catalogs this weekend they have a, like a, a clothes hamper kind of thing that, you know, you lay your string in, then you put your papers in there tie them all ...
I'd like to be able to do more. The problem is, with a lot of it is, you have to go, you know, it takes a while to drive to these places where you recycle it, you know Yeah see, and, it's not always convenient to do it. Yeah, see, and here in Lubbock everything's so close. I can imagine what it's like up there. Yeah, I...
Yeah, I got one from Payless Cashways, and it's actually metal Uh-huh. it's not plastic. I didn't want to buy a plastic one. Yeah because those things I think would just snap you know. Yeah. But Payless Cashways has them and they're metal, and I don't know what affiliate of Payless Cashways you have up there, but it wa...
yeah, I don't think it would crush steel cans, it's pretty tough. Yeah, so. I don't know, I don't think you have to crush the other ones for them to get to take that, but, I need to look into it more, No, you could probably just, you know, you know, it's, you know, it, sometimes, even with the newspaper they say they'l...
Now we recycle all our computer paper and our cardboard, but that's just now come on board. Uh-huh. You know, we've been throwing paper out there away for years, and we're just now getting on board to recycling ever since this big Earth Day thing came out, you know. Uh-huh. Yeah, I don't know what, you know, I haven't,...
Oh, yeah. and I think they're just fine. Yeah, I bought a, I got one at work that I bought for one of the guys there at work, it's his birthday, we're pretty good friends, and what it is is a recycled paper bag Uh-huh. and it's just got Happy Birthday printing on it, and a cute little phrase inside, and it's just a pap...
there's not going to be any room, shortly. No, no, the office, I don't know what New York does about theirs. I guess they still ship it out on barges somewhere. Yeah, it's probably sitting out on the barge somewhere Yeah, so. But I think we're getting better at it Yeah. I think there's quite a bit more we could do. to ...
So. Yeah, it sure is. I think if, you know, the cities, locally, you know, they'd get more programs going so that you could do that, it'd make it a lot easier. So. Yeah, yeah. Well, they'll get at it sooner. I guess the schools will get into it, too, sooner or later. Yeah, yeah, get the kids interested in it too. You k...
Now I don't want a can, a garage full of cans That's right, who does. You know people don't have room for that kind of stuff. You know. No, they're just not, they're not prepared for it. No, and in Texas, they're just get, things like that, they just get bugs in them. So. Yeah, yeah, they do. So, you don't, You know, t...
I'm pretty lazy about it right now. Everything goes into one thing and goes out to the Yeah. You know, pick it up. So. Yeah, myself. About the only thing I really recycle around here is aluminum cans. Uh-huh. So. Well, I need to get, get better at it. So. Well, if we all try a little bit, a little bit goes a long way. ...
Huh. Well, thank you for calling. I, Sure, no problem, Okay, take care. All right, Bye-bye. Bye-bye. I, I, I, assume you have kids in Uh, we have one. She's only nine months old. Oh, well she, she doesn't have to worry about public schools yet. Right. Well, my degree is in teaching, so. Yeah. Well, we have a little bit...
Oh, really. Yeah. I, uh, thought I wanted to be a teacher so, but before I went through all of that I wanted to see how I was going to like it. Uh-huh. And, and they, uh, in Alabama, where I came from they, they allow you to substitute if you got a four year degree. So I went out and played substitute for a while and d...
Um. And, well, they don't call it remedial reading these days, they call it something else. Yeah. But, but, anyway, at the time that's what I taught. And, um, you kind of group your behavioral problems together that way, when you have your slow readers Uh-huh and clicking noises in but it, it wasn't too bad. We, we got...
Well, that's a nice way of putting it. You can find a lot of good public schools if you, if you look real hard but I don't think they could cover everything that you could teach, your children on an individual basis. exactly, And too, most people don't have that option. Yeah. You know. And plus it also depends on the d...
and inside this lunch box he, he's got easily two, I'd say two hundred to two hundred and fifty dollars in one dollar bills. Um. And I asked him, uh, what are you doing with that? And he says, "My father gave it to me." And I didn't believe it for a minute. Uh-huh Um, so, uh, but, uh, you know, the, not a lot I could d...
with teaching, um, I was eighth and ninth graders that I worked with and if we did have a, a student come in and they were drunk or they were on something you had the option of calling the police and have them taken out of the schools or trying to teach them something while they were there. Uh-huh. And you don't know i...
Uh, I don't know, guns and, I don't know it's something. I think there's a problem too with teachers trying to, um, to be so versatile that they do loose sight of the basics, you know, they've been a big drive in, especially in the seventies to return back to the basics. Uh-huh. And, uh, and I'm not completely just, yo...
and I, they go by a complete rote system, you just memorize everything. Uh-huh. And then at the end of the, of a certain time period you spitted everything back out and the better the memorizer you are the better your grades are going to be. Yeah. So I don't completely agree with that either. No. But there, there defin...
and then you get one examine for the whole semester Uh-huh. and it's how well you can remember it all. How, how much can you stuff in your brain. Yeah. And I found that a particularly useless way of studying. Yeah. I never did. I always tried to understand things, not tried to memorize. Uh-huh. And consequently some of...
Yeah. So, Yeah. Well, Well, I don't know. What can we do about it? good question Probably, Money, Money is not the answer. Taking, No. There's plenty of money in the system, Yeah. it's just, Yeah. I mean, they're throwing more money at it now than ever before and things are getting worse. I think it's like a lot of thi...
Uh-huh. and in the, the power plays that it needs to be pulled down and started over again and there's no way that, that can be done. Uh-huh. Not without wiping out a whole generation of, of kids in the school system, Yeah. so. Yeah. Maybe on smaller, smaller scales. Well, I don't know I, uh, as much as I didn't like s...
I mean, I, I mean teachers are so afraid now of even saying something, to students because they're going get, they're going to get complaints or they're going to get sued or something. Uh-huh. It's like doctors in lawsuits, Oh yeah. you know, they're kind of fearful of, everything. Well, lawyers help create that That's...
Oh, sure. I, I you, you can, you can have the best school system in the world if you don't get anything at home then it's, it's not going to help either. Yeah. Right. So, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what the answer is. Uh-huh. It's an interesting, interesting thing you want to do. I, how is Texas about kee...
And then if you have particular religious beliefs they have to be, they're kind of monitored. You know, they, they will allow you to, I can't think of any examples but certain religious groups don't want their children in public schools because the influence. And maybe they were a group of Mennonites or something like ...
and at that time, uh, it was is a changing time for the whole music scene, I guess and I grew up with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and the whole pot culture during that time and went through that phase and kind of stayed with it I guess for several years after I graduated from college and, and thereafter but have...
so I'm just a couple years older than you, Yeah. um, essentially I was one of the nerdy types in high school really which meant that I, for one reason or another I didn't pay much attention to music, but as I look back now I realize it was very formative for me, uh, my early popular music interests were in Simon and Ga...
I listen to some country and western but I'm not schooled in it and I, I've enjoyed the times when I have listened to it. I played a little bit of piano. I continue to do that. I want to do it and I never have the discipline to stay with it, but when I do play, uh, and begin to reacquire skills I inevitably fall in lov...
and so consequently we wind up, wound up playing a lot of classical music there and I think that, uh, got deep seated into me. One of things I especially like now in music regardless of what kind it is, uh, are those that call on those classical, uh, roots, I guess, uh, Barry Manilow comes to mind for some reason there...
but it's the music, almost that I find myself listening to, uh, Yeah. I'm kind of thinking that's maybe, our generation was, uh, so in tuned to music of that time that we identify goodness or badness with, uh, things now with the music that's behinds them. That could well be. I, I, uh, spent my junior year, uh, and sop...
Yeah. and I have, uh, returned about every four or five years to thinking that I would like to do something about it. I usually get to the point where I can play some of my favorite themes and then inevitably I am swept away by the, the pressure of other types of things, Yeah. uh, It is a time consumer. It is. In order...
it's making that, that connection especially with the mechanical parts of it. I was never able to, to master all that. In fact my brother and sister both, they were, oh, thirteen, sixteen years older than I, they went through the, uh, parent thing where you've got to practice or you're not going out to play thing, and ...
That's the most fascinating thing Well, it's a pleasure talking with you. And you, sir, Best, of luck in your graduate school. take care. Okay. Good-bye. Good-bye. Okay, do you want to go first? Well, I could barely hear what the switchboard operator was saying as what was the topic. Fitness and exercise. Oh, God No, w...
Well, let me ask a personal question, how old are you? Thirty-eight. Oh, well then you should see over thirty-five everything goes downhill flop . Well, the rest of me is in pretty good shape it's just that left knee that just doesn't want to do everything it used to. Oh, you're lucky then because I've battled arthriti...
uh, I tried weight training and I'm telling you, you just, I just can't lift the things. Yeah. And the shock on the system is, is just too much, so I have stuck to water aerobics basically, you know, the weightless thing and, trying to keep this shape that way Yeah. but, you know, it's hard to find. I mean it's really ...
you look very odd in the water, Well, that, that was the one place where I was also able to do weight training, and that does look very odd in the water. I can believe that. Have you tried the, uh, the pool at the Spring Creek Fitness Center? No, and you know, that's the only place I haven't tried and people have told ...
Um, have you done your attitude survey for this year yet? You need to put that on there, seriously. They don't, I don't, I don't work at T I. Oh, you don't? No, I used to work at T I, Oh. as matter of fact I was the only woman that they had in the field in a management position actually when I was working there I was t...
and I came down here and, you know, they did an attitude survey like six weeks after I had been working here and I asked about, you know, day care for the shift workers, Yeah. and boy I was pulled in by my manager and told that you just don't say that, you know, Well, it's not, it was not applicable to me and I was kin...
and then I took, uh, when I became pregnant I also got meningitis, and then delivered the first baby three months early, Oh. My gosh. and they put the baby on a heart lung monitor when I took her home, and the insurance carrier was not going to cover this because it was considered preventative treatment. Could you hold...
very easy, very easy and they, they put me on twenty-four hour fetal monitoring then to, to try to control the labor and see how far it was going, and after the baby was born, since it wasn't premature, then they said they wouldn't cover the cost of the monitor. I think that's kind of when my husband hit the roof, beca...
and he's got a good salary we didn't think that you'd be coming back anyway, and, uh, you know, we've got people here that really, you know, need to be working and so that we had just, you know, it was, this way we didn't have to layoff an active person and we'd just let you go. And it took me about a year of arguing, ...