you know me...

[Michael Bailey]

back in 2005 my dad wrote 75 pages about his life, a lot of
interesting anecdotes, some of them really good!  shoot, I might have
that in electronic format somewhere and you could get 2 generations of
ramblings...

anyway, nowadays his memory is pretty brief.  He still remembers some
things, but, well, he needs a lot of help from my mom.

I was in a UNIX class back in 97 with somebody from work, Tobe Harris,
and we got talking and she said something really true about how your
parents when you're a kid are huge heroes to you, and it reminded me
of how my folks would get dressed up for a party and look really nice,
and all glamorous and stuff.

But today, it'd be unlikely for him to dig up some business contacts.

I can tell you that the best thing for his career, as far as
networking, was to join the Lions Club.  You're probably already in
something like that.

By joining the Lions he met up with prominent citizens, Ralph
Conselyea, and so forth, and was linked in to some lucrative real
estate deals - one of them, as I probably have told you, sent Sandy
thru college and me thru 2 years of UofM and a lot of further attempts
down here - and because of Lions he met up with Pecky Lewis, and got
us in the Indian Guides.  He knew Phil Miller, the publisher of the
Tribune, and lots and lots of people around town, the director of the
orphanage, the big funeral home owners, lots and lots of people!

The other thing he did (and this was linked to Mr Lewis, also, I
think) was to be involved in the Republican party in Oakland County,
and from that came the school board involvement (also his Dad was on
the school board in Cedar Springs, so it was a family tradition, I
guess) -- which perhaps you could replicate by becoming involved in
the local Democratic Party

I'm serious about both those things for you - both a service club and
politics, I think you have the right stuff.

Not that I'm Joe Guru, but, well, there's always room for good people.
As you know, I'm a little bit introverted and have a history of
weirdness which would come out pretty readily, plus I'm fully occupied
with work and Marie.
But you are not under any of those constraints.
It would be frickin' awesome if you were, like, Mayor Sundell...

eh, think about it, anyway...



On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:57 PM, greg sundello <gsundell at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...and fyi I am starting a staffing company here...does your dad have any
> old business pals he could refer me to?? Or are they now too old??? My dad
> is really showing some signs of age.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bailey [mailto:michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:39 PM
> To: gsundell at comcast.net
> Subject: you know me...
>
> so you know I'm totally in the dark as to whether the mention of the
> Detroit Ocean Committee left the door open for further comment, ie,
> almost an "opt-in"...
> anyway, have been thinking about 8th grade - I remember we were the
> 7-6s, right, but were we the 8-3s? not as clear.
>
> What is kind of surprising is the extent to which memories of Kathy
> Blevins feature.  Culminating in seeing her in a bikini after the end
> of the school year, courtesy of Phil Turkington bringing us over to
> somebody's house where she was thus clad.  Which was about as close as
> I could imagine getting to her without having to master all kinds of
> social skills like talking to people's parents, indicating desires,
> and, I guess, listening.
>
> Although I do remember her telling me God's last name is not "Damn".
> And telling her girlfriends about an older boyfriend she had, named
> Michael, and the way he French kissed...
>
> But you're busy, and I've been running around a lot lately.  We've
> reached a detente in the shopping situation, Marie agreeing to
> spending limits as long as I take her out to as many as 6 stores a
> day.  This is actually very good, because she won't walk in the park
> or exercise with me, so it's the only way she stays in shape.
>
> Almost like having a kid, but I imagine having kids is more
> satisfying. Also, didn't you marry somebody who knows John Sinclair?
> She probably has some maintenance requirements too...
>
> Greg's imaginary country...trying to dredge up even an inkling...
>
> ttfn,
>
> Mike
> --
> "It is only by abandoning the cliches that we can even define the
> tragedy" - William Appleman Williams (_Tragedy of American Diplomacy_)
>
>



-- 
"It is only by abandoning the cliches that we can even define the
tragedy" - William Appleman Williams (_Tragedy of American Diplomacy_)