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Today is my “fully vaccinated day”.   Two weeks have passed since I got my second shot.  I got the Moderna.  I did not have much of a reaction to either the first or the second shot.  Being tired might just be due to being old.

I am sick of being locked down.  I used to meet new people every month because I always tried very hard to get a face to face meeting with prospects.  Now it is all by email, telephone or Zoom.  

The second of my  five careers was in office furnishings.  I started working as a sales rep for General Office Products in 1971.  Roy Utne was part owner of General Office Products.   Shortly after I started working there, Roy  called me into his office and said:  “Osberg, if you get a 10 and a 2 and a meaningful lunch, you will be falling off of your billfold.”   It is not easy to get a 10 and a 2 and a meaningful lunch.   I hope to be able to return to the third floor of Wimmer Hall on the campus of St. John’s  the day after Labor Day and go back to “meeting in person”. 

When you come to my “celebration of life” at The Paramount Center for the Arts, there will be a gray ring binder on a table in the lobby.  Inside of that ring binder you will find a list of the 24 companies that I have worked for since 1961 and 44 calling cards.  The first one has only my name:  Gary Michael Osberg.  Every graduate of Upsala High School class of 1961 got a calling card to send along with the invitations to the graduation ceremony.  The last 8 cards are all from Minnesota Public Radio.  Titles changed, logos changed and we used to have a fax machine. 

I trust that you are able to get your shots and hopefully by Labor Day this should all be behind us. If you also have reached your “fully vaccinated” day, and you would like to meet for coffee, I have a Keurig and both regular coffee and decaf, so give me a call and I will give you directions to my cottage in Mill Stream Village.