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Good morning from Collegeville,

The news this morning is all about Steve Jobs. He was only 56 years old and he died yesterday from cancer. I remember seeing the MacIntosh commercial in a bar in DesMoines during the Super Bowl Game in 1984. There is no doubt that Steve Jobs had a huge impact on our lives. The I Pad is almost too great not to own.

I am heading down to DesMoines in a few minutes to visit my buddy Bob in the hospital. His wife called me and it sounds serious. Bob and I met outside of our apartment building in Richfield in 1965. A complex that we referred to as “Lyndale Barracks”. Bob was a salesman with the Yellow Pages and he was a cook in the national guard. It is possible that the military provided many pork chops for our cook outs by the pool. My friends that know both Bob and I can hardly believe that we are friends at all. He is so far to the right that he makes Glen Beck look like a liberal. He makes his living as a salesman and his jokes are rarely fit for mixed company, but I love him anyway. He is one of the most generous persons that I know.

The show this week is another live show from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. Special guests include Texas Country Super Man, Joe Ely and Northern Soul Sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele. Enjoy the show.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Shaw