Day #11 - 10/26/97 - 3:35PM

It's raining here in Virginia.

I did a lot of "Dad" stuff today: made breakfast for the kids, took them out to pick pumpkins at a local farm and then ran into Ashland (about 15 miles away) to return some videos.

But, the highlight of the day was moving my mailbox. For the last 5 years or so, all the people who live out this way were forced to locate their mailboxes up near the closest secondary road in the area so the mailperson could deliver everyone's letters and such in one shot, so to speak. Well, we finally bitched loud enough and they let us put our mailboxes by our own homes. Now all I have to do to send an aircheck out is walk down my driveway. Life's little joys.

Ya know, when I first started out in Radio.....I mean like my first couple of gigs, I was scared-to-death of getting fired because I was afraid I'd NEVER get another radio job. I suppose in the beginning, my lack of confidence led me to believe that being on the air was probably a "fluke" at best. I was sure no one would ever be fooled again into hiring me to do a radio show. Either I was wrong....or I've been fooling people for the last 20 years! (I'm going to assume for this discussion I was wrong.)

Ironically, now I'm almost afraid I'll be offered a really decent job because it will take me away from my family and home....allowing the whole process to start all over again - the separation, the traveling back and forth, the circumstances which we know as radio.

I'm gonna start dropping tapes in the mail tomorrow, probably against my better judgement. But, at least the mailbox is closer.