From skateboard to Bonehead overnight

If you read my blog yesterday, you know that one of the guests on our 9 am show had a skateboard with my image on it. Frightening site don't you think? Amazingly I left the station yesterday and I transitioned from skateboard to bonehead.

On the drive home I suddenly realized that my sister's birthday was the day before. I had forgotten to call Patty. Here is one of the problems with relatives birthdays. They are all on the west coast. So the time difference is a problem. Here is one of the problems with me, I forget just about everything. I'm thinking to myself okay it's way to early to call the west coast. What do I do?

The answer seemed simple enough, just send Patty a text message. That's Patty pictured with her husband Jim at a recent wedding. So I send a text message. It was short, but it got right to the point..."I'm such a bonehead, I forgot your birthday, so sorry!" So last night before I went to bed I made it a point to call her. She answered the phone and I said happy birthday and she started laughing. She asked, "Do you want to wish me a happy birthday or Jim?" She laughed some more. Finally she confessed that I was really a bonehead because I had sent the text message to Jim's cell phone and not hers. Don't you just love technology? During our thirty minute conversation she tells me she thought I was really just messing with her the day before. Because wouldn't you know it I sent her a couple of e-mails. I could have included a little note like Happy Birthday. But I forgot.

Ironically I had sent her notes to let her know that I had mentioned her daughter and my niece on the air in the morning. That is Lindsey on the left. Lindsey Bloomfield works in radio and runs into Ryan Secrest in the hallway, where on occasion they have periodic chats. We mentioned him on the air, and I mentioned my niece too. To be honest I don't know how Ryan has time for periodic chats. I also can't understand why he's such a big star, but that's another story. Patty told me that she mentioned to Lindsey that I did a shout out to her on the air, and Lindsey had spent the morning doing a shout out to my brother Larry.

Larry helped with the construction of a project in Venice California that is noted for it's Jonathan Borofsky sculpture of the ballerina clown. Anyone who has traveled to Venice knows what I am talking about, but just in case you have never seen it I've pictured it here. My brother has been instrumental in so many projects but I'm afraid he will always be remembered for this one. I'm really proud of both of my brothers, and my five sisters. They've all done some pretty incredible things. Larry though has overcome his fair share of adversity and is a true inspiration. Busted up physically and emotionally after his stint in Vietnam, he dealt with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and everything else you can throw at a person who is sent off to fight in an unpopular war in a foreign land. Sometimes I think about my son who will soon be 17, and I think that was about the age that Larry learned he would have to go off to war. I can't imagine what it must have been like to come of age in Vietnam. Well I digress, let me get back to the sculpture, and my brothers project. I think you can figure out why he'll always be remembered for this one. It was a pretty controversial sculpture when it was put in place. Some like it, others don't. Right now Larry is Project Supterintendent on the Alexan Universal Project out in Southern California. So there you have it Lindsey mentions Larry, and I mention her, and just about everyone gets a mention in my blog. I guess you can call that family cross promotion.

Next year I won't be a clown and I'll remember to call my sister on her birthday and not a day late!