August 1, 2014
Good morning from Collegeville,
26 years ago I took a job in Charlotte, North Carolina. I was the General Manager of an office furniture dealership, Contren. The deal came with a company car and a “Motorola Brick”, a cell phone. The thing weighed about 5 pounds. It was very handy and when I came back to Minnesota for summer vacation, it even worked from the picnic table down by the lake. The only thing that you could do on the “brick” was to make or receive telephone calls.
Last weekend I was at Brother Brian’s cabin with my son and his family plus another friend, Joe and his family. One of Joe’s teenagers showed me how to download a video, taken on my iPhone, to YouTube. It took her all of five minutes. It is a miracle! If you want to see Joe’s son Joseph catching a bass and watch the body language of my grandson Willie as he waits for Joseph to land the fish, all you have to do is type “Gary Osberg Joseph’s Bass” in the queue on YouTube. Those folks at Apple are very cool.
The APHC show this week is another great re-run from the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Special guests include Sheryl Crow, Martin Sheen, k.d. Lang and Heather Masse sings “Midnight Sun”. In the News From Lake Wobegon, Pastor Ingqvist counsels prospective newlyweds. Enjoy the show.
“Aside from the strictly moral standpoint, honesty is not only the best policy, but the only possible policy from the standpoint of business relations. The fulfillment of the pledged word is of equal necessity to the conduct of all business. If we expect and demand virtue and honor in others, the flame of both must burn brightly within ourselves…honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on through the whole category of desirable practices that govern and control the world’s affairs.” James F. Bell
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