I've spent my fair share of time traveling to various parts of the world during my embassy duty. One place that holds a special spot on my bucket list is Ghana, Africa. I have fond memories of my time there and would love to return for just a week or so. The Africans were particularly fond of me, not because I was any kind of celebrity, but because of my unique hair texture. My kinky hair used to be quite the sensation among locals who would often carry their pencils up in it like it was some sort of hairstyle trend. Although my hair is now shorter, I still have fond memories of being a bit of an American icon in Ghana.

On another trip, I drove alongside one of those old Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains on Route 66. It was quite the experience and something that I'll always cherish. The railroad has been around for a long time and it's amazing to think about all the people who have ridden its rails over the years. As for other countries, I've had the opportunity to visit Hawaii, which is definitely one of my favorite destinations. Although I didn't quite get hooked on Hawaiian shirts like some folks do, I did start wearing them as a way to stand out in a crowd. I remember finding a shop in California that sold these crazy shirts at a discount, and I ended up buying a bunch of them. Now, I have a whole collection of these iconic shirts that I wear every day.

I've also had the chance to visit other parts of the United States, including New England, where I'm from but have never really explored much. The Northeast is definitely on my bucket list for future travel adventures. As for South America or South Africa, those are countries I'd love to visit someday as well. There's just something about exploring new cultures and meeting new people that really gets me excited.

Speaking of family, I've been married to an amazing woman named Judy for 42 years now. She's the one who keeps me on my toes and always knows how to make me laugh. We had a bit of a surprise birthday party planned in college, but she ended up finding out about it first thing in the morning and wasn't too pleased with my plans. Now every year on our anniversary, we celebrate by doing something special together.

One interesting quirk I've noticed is that I seem to have a knack for getting into conversations with people who end up being interesting and memorable. It's almost like I'm magnetically drawn to folks who are passionate about life or have some fascinating story to tell. And speaking of that, I did receive an email from someone in Ghana who claims to be a friend – so maybe we can arrange a time for me to visit again soon.

As for other notable experiences, I've been fortunate enough to work on several different projects over the years and even had my own business venture at one point. One of the things that keeps me grounded is technology, particularly iPads – which I happen to have at home right now.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthank you for watching liking commenting sharing and subscribing right now you know my son has made me a geek I can't go any place now without my iPhone and I was just sitting over here watching live watching really live and I'm learning not only from Chris but just going through uh what's on uh the know me Facebook and Facebook uh I'm finding out things from all of you I mean it's amazing and I just wanted uh find out if Caleb Barry he had a question he wasn't I understood what I read through there was like 31 replies a lot of them were duplicate because two people were conversing but he was having trouble he was I took it he was at school and his school wouldn't allow him in this live chat or whatever and so if I understood it right just from what I saw in the string is people were able to communicate with him while all this is really still going on and I think he got on Via his phone if I know if I understood everything right I I read it kind of quick and I'm the type of person that has to read things two or three times so hopefully I read that and just a shout shout out up to Caleb because I'd still be asking the question I hope you did get on let us know let us know so cool uh is there any one of the things I'm going to do tomorrow I'm going to share how I budget and I'm going to have an expert with me too and then what I would like you to do is each of you or some of you send me um what you do what you use budgeting either on your iPad iPhone computer Droid whatever just send me a quick note and I just want to look at some things mine's already ready to go but I just wanted to see ahead of time what you guys use cool any questions yeah how are you going to display the budget so it's is that going to be a webinar is it going to be a video have you decided Well I don't know I don't know how we'll do it out I'll show Chris what I got and then he can kind of help me uh determine how we'll do it either in this method here or something maybe a little longer okay that work definitely tomorrow huh your student loan needs help we'll see what we can do I see Wes is also asking Caleb did he get on Hope geek girl 27 is that your age no it's just asking who's been the most influential person to me there used to be a TV character and I remember his last name was Cox do you remember his name Judy was a bald guy uh Wally Cox yeah he was a comedian and he was a nerdy looking guy way back in the 50s so he'd fit right in today but he was my math teacher and he was short like I was and the rest of my family uh we're not all as short as Judy but we're all short uh but he was my math teacher and he he fired me up to learn math and and love learning not only did he teach me math but he learned me how taught me how to approach all my classes so he was a great influence and his name believe it or not was Joe Smith and God bless him and if he's still alive I hope he's on the internet and if he is I say hello if not hello he was a good man do you see anything on uh YouTube there I know the comments kind of scroll by real quick oh where they at is this where I should be or is it in behind this I don't know where you are uh no it's right over there down the side yeah well how do I make it so I can see it can I scoot this over or something yeah so on the Mac you hold on the control and you use two fingers to scroll up and then that'll zoom in so I don't know if there's any new comments two seconds ago Perry Cox oh Perry Cox are you marry are you related to Joe no he's talking about Dr Cox from Scrubs I think okay I'll tell you I Chris read the qu read the question okay do you believe the iPad is still The Benchmark for tablets or Android devices like Asus I think Transformer Prime and the Acer well I'll tell you when I first got here there was this little Gizmo sitting on the side on an N table and I picked it up and turned it on and chis said well use that and I'm not quite sure what it was it was one of them tablets newer tablets and I really got excited about one of the games on there and uh was like an airport game airplanes and someone sent me a video him flying a a RC plane I want to say that was Ray I think a aray is was his first name sticks in my mind and um this little thing really was good but then after I used it a while it kept stalling on me and I thought maybe I broke it so I I just threw looking around I tried to do some searches on the web on it and I even went to my iPad and went to Google and asked her what was wrong with there was no answer for that but no I think the iPad has probably set the mark and it's pretty high uh my guess is they'll catch up how long it'll take everybody to catch up I have no idea but Apple I think certainly has something really unique because they're going to this iPad and I have no idea what this new one's going to have but I can't imagine having anything more than it already has but I'm sure they'll come up with something but it's going to it's going to transform from the very young to the very old people older than me so so that little tablet was the Amazon Kindle Fire oh it was an Amazon Kindle Fire so I apologize if I heard anybody's feelings but the iPad was just a little better although and I told Chris this earlier I really like the little characters on the Kindle Fire I mean the way they looked they just seemed more uhu cartoonish if I can use that terminology someone asked how old I am hang on a minute I I might have to take off my shoes to figure this one out hang on my short wife's here how old am I 16 I was born 1943 yeah 68 I'm 68 so no yeah no 30 years older than me oh okay but it isn't his birthday okay yeah but I'm 38 I don't own a smart phone what I'd like to know is what is the best method of learning and becom an acquainting with it I'll tell you what I don't care what kind of phone you got I happen to have an iPhone but I had something before this but I'mma tell you especially with this iPhone what you got to do is use it if you don't use it you'll never learn it don't be like me and be too cautious but the first thing you got to do is learn where this button is and you push that and voila and then you got this little Gizmo and you can have a password I kind of take it off because I'm in and out of it so much around here so you slide it over then you have all your apps there you know I first had this people would ask me and I showed it on the inter they asked me what did I have and I I had maybe three things on there now I got all kinds of things and I I try to experiment with them I even have this little cartoon thing here where um oh well maybe it's loading so you see you can do this on the internet and you can show off to your friends and you put in front of your kids and you can have a fun time with this but that's my stash That's The Lorax uh Lorax yeah but it's it's kind of cool kind of fun to have fun with but just little things like that just things to have fun my wife and I we like to have fun what is my favorite piece of tech in Chris's house has it inspired you to buy more well I really have to tell you you know it was kind of interesting with my kids were growing up cuz I was always their dad like I was Adam's dad or Ben's dad or Chris's dad and I can't tell each of you how proud proud I am of Chris and he's probably the best hang on a minute see yeah made me reminder and it boy that was on time I I didn't even plan that one but I used the calendar and it reminded me of something anyway Chris is the best piece of tech in the house and he inspires me and even though he might have to tell me dozen times or so I finally get it finally sinks in and again you know I soer people people we need to be nudged does Chris have a sister no and I always wanted a daughter I had this each time my wife got with child pregnant I would go to Sears and they had this great canopy bed it was white was like a single bed it was a canopy bed and had all the furniture around it as soon as we had a girl I was going to go buy that for her and put it in the house and I never had a daughter so I hope my daughter-in-laws are watching because if they're watching are you listening Diane if they're nice to me I'd almost do anything they'd ask me to do I just I I love ladies and I always want my own daughter and we don't have he doesn't have a sister that we know of yeah that we know of uh did did do you play Minecraft no I haven't done this yet do I have funny pictures of Chris as a kid quite honestly they were all funny but uh we have some fil we have some great films of Chris because Chris I think was born to do what he does because I had this vcr and I I I had this great big thing and I ended up getting a smaller one so I kind of give the bigger one to the kids Chris became his own production and and engineer he did the funniest one I can tell you is this is a singer he likes oh you're going to have to forgive me but he does parodies on songs uh Weird Al Yankovic Weird Al Weird Al Yankovic and Chris did an imitation of him and it's hilarious I didn't think about it cracks me up it was funny and then he did stuff like uh Star Wars and he jees his brothers and uh uh friends and friends around the neighbor neighborhood and he'd have his own little Productions and it was funny when the other kids would forget his line forget their lines and Chris would have to tell them what kind of Internet do I do I have someone's asking tune tonan bunny asked what internet service I have well if you ask Chris someone said is is she hot and if you're talking about my wife absolutely so anyway way which one was I on now oh the internet service if you ask Chris he'll tell you it's very very slow but to me it's fast because we used to have dialup and we made the big jump from dialup to what I want to say was D DLS uh through uh the phone company and we think that's lightning fast but now if I'm going to get into this stuff I'm going to have to look at uh at uh updating it maybe going to cable or something I have to look into that when we get home technology we were on the start of what has happened since then so technology and I think technology is going to grow I think back of the things I've seen in my lifetime how we've gone from uh pencil and paper slide rules uh uh little handout calculator I got a calculator that I bought you must have been in the uh 70s that paid $300 for it and it couldn't do anything I mean it was gigant about like this like this about that thick a brick and U I think about that but it was very expensive it would add subtract multiply divide wouldn't even hold a constant so each calculation you had do separate what's the history of the Pell name we came from Italy that's all the history I really know well I can tell you that both my grandfathers worked for the railroad one worked for the great uh The Rock Island and the other the Great Northwest how are you going to be staying with Chris's house we're staying here until Friday this Friday uh we hate to leave because even my wife was just telling me today how much she she can relax here and I don't know if it's Seattle or or the weather or just being with Chris and Diane or what it is but I know she feels very good here uh how did I live with the dalala well like I say you know that's all we knew see we didn't even know how slow that was until we got the the the DSL or whatever and then we didn't know how how how good wifi was until we got that so I'm learning slow but sure was I ever in the army army absolutely not I was a marine six years United States Marine Corps 1962 through 1968 and so I was in and spent some time in Vietnam but my most my most memorable moments in the military in the Marine Corps I was on Embassy Duty and I was in Ghana Africa AF so if you know anybody that lives in Ghana you got to get them to sign up so I can figure out how I can get back there cuz that's on my bucket list is to get back to Ghana just just for a week or so I just would like to go back I loved it and um it was kind of cool so and the Africans used to love me because believe it or not I used to have my hair was really kinky I mean really kinky and they would carry their pencils up in their hair like this and they and let let go of it of course I got it kind of short right now but I was able to do that and you you to swear I was some God from America I mean it was really neat and they they would come and talk to me all the time oh good we got a an engineer on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe we uh drove alongside of one of those on Route 66 I want to say so that was kind of cool that railroad I have not been to Afghanistan either now or in the past ever visited Hawaii yes I was in Maui and no I didn't get hooked on the shirts them when I was a younger man I wanted to set myself out so people would notice me more I guess I don't know where Chris gets his flamboyant but I I wanted to be noticed so I start wearing these Hawaiian shirts and then yeah I was in saon too and then I found out you couldn't find these crazy things so then in my business where I work I had to go to California and I found this little shop that sold them they were all on sale so I bought a bunch and I I've been wearing them ever since usually every day I have them uh it gets chillier yes I have an iPad it's downstairs gets chillier but uh I love the Hawaiian insurts now um here while back they became real popular and I kind of I kind of get a kick out of it um um when I see kids that have them and the other day we saw a young it was at church actually a young boy in his father had the same shirt it was so cool and they were both Hawaiian yeah you can reach me at Joe purell.com that's Joe and the sign pill.com how many items do you have on your bucket list well the major one is I never want to empty my bucket but uh really um Africa's probably right at the top uh there's some other trips around the US I'd like to have I've been pretty well all over because of the both here as well as abroad but I'd like to get my wife up into New England Maine New Hampshire up in the uh Northeast so have never been to I have never been to South a or South America any any one of them oh I'm from Ghana cool to know you're here send me an email email it's t e r o r D1 in Ghana cool are you in a cow are you out by the lake or where you at cool it's from Ghana from Ghana cool now you know why he's my favorite uh Tech piece around here how long have I been married it only seems like a week or so but I want to say it's been uh how long Judy 40 42 years come October she's telling me 42 years come October oh 42 years come October 17th I knew she was going to ask me don't ever forget your spouse on her one time I was going to throw this Judy uh birthday party and I thought well it was going to be a surprise so I wanted to surprise her I was in college at the time I went to Fair State University in Big Rapids Michigan although I'm an Iowa native but I kept it secret all day and I had people Park all over and they're in the house and we and we surprise her and she she had this look on her face she was mad at me because I didn't wish her happy birthday first day in the morning so now every birthday she has the first day and I do I almost stay up all night so I can make sure I tell her happy birthday in the morning God it's getting thick and here and I need to go get my boots I cry oh okay he's from he's in a C I'm sorry I missed that who who's sending this it says a c is it the name's below it right so you're in a cry cool I was in in the house I can't tell you the address right now I'd have to look but was the marine house where the Marine stay we were right behind where the Ambassador was at the time cool your mom can celebrate her birthday while we celebrate our anniversary okay so cool listen guys I look forward to talking about the budget tomorrow we'll figure out how we're going to do that so see you later byebyethank you for watching liking commenting sharing and subscribing right now you know my son has made me a geek I can't go any place now without my iPhone and I was just sitting over here watching live watching really live and I'm learning not only from Chris but just going through uh what's on uh the know me Facebook and Facebook uh I'm finding out things from all of you I mean it's amazing and I just wanted uh find out if Caleb Barry he had a question he wasn't I understood what I read through there was like 31 replies a lot of them were duplicate because two people were conversing but he was having trouble he was I took it he was at school and his school wouldn't allow him in this live chat or whatever and so if I understood it right just from what I saw in the string is people were able to communicate with him while all this is really still going on and I think he got on Via his phone if I know if I understood everything right I I read it kind of quick and I'm the type of person that has to read things two or three times so hopefully I read that and just a shout shout out up to Caleb because I'd still be asking the question I hope you did get on let us know let us know so cool uh is there any one of the things I'm going to do tomorrow I'm going to share how I budget and I'm going to have an expert with me too and then what I would like you to do is each of you or some of you send me um what you do what you use budgeting either on your iPad iPhone computer Droid whatever just send me a quick note and I just want to look at some things mine's already ready to go but I just wanted to see ahead of time what you guys use cool any questions yeah how are you going to display the budget so it's is that going to be a webinar is it going to be a video have you decided Well I don't know I don't know how we'll do it out I'll show Chris what I got and then he can kind of help me uh determine how we'll do it either in this method here or something maybe a little longer okay that work definitely tomorrow huh your student loan needs help we'll see what we can do I see Wes is also asking Caleb did he get on Hope geek girl 27 is that your age no it's just asking who's been the most influential person to me there used to be a TV character and I remember his last name was Cox do you remember his name Judy was a bald guy uh Wally Cox yeah he was a comedian and he was a nerdy looking guy way back in the 50s so he'd fit right in today but he was my math teacher and he was short like I was and the rest of my family uh we're not all as short as Judy but we're all short uh but he was my math teacher and he he fired me up to learn math and and love learning not only did he teach me math but he learned me how taught me how to approach all my classes so he was a great influence and his name believe it or not was Joe Smith and God bless him and if he's still alive I hope he's on the internet and if he is I say hello if not hello he was a good man do you see anything on uh YouTube there I know the comments kind of scroll by real quick oh where they at is this where I should be or is it in behind this I don't know where you are uh no it's right over there down the side yeah well how do I make it so I can see it can I scoot this over or something yeah so on the Mac you hold on the control and you use two fingers to scroll up and then that'll zoom in so I don't know if there's any new comments two seconds ago Perry Cox oh Perry Cox are you marry are you related to Joe no he's talking about Dr Cox from Scrubs I think okay I'll tell you I Chris read the qu read the question okay do you believe the iPad is still The Benchmark for tablets or Android devices like Asus I think Transformer Prime and the Acer well I'll tell you when I first got here there was this little Gizmo sitting on the side on an N table and I picked it up and turned it on and chis said well use that and I'm not quite sure what it was it was one of them tablets newer tablets and I really got excited about one of the games on there and uh was like an airport game airplanes and someone sent me a video him flying a a RC plane I want to say that was Ray I think a aray is was his first name sticks in my mind and um this little thing really was good but then after I used it a while it kept stalling on me and I thought maybe I broke it so I I just threw looking around I tried to do some searches on the web on it and I even went to my iPad and went to Google and asked her what was wrong with there was no answer for that but no I think the iPad has probably set the mark and it's pretty high uh my guess is they'll catch up how long it'll take everybody to catch up I have no idea but Apple I think certainly has something really unique because they're going to this iPad and I have no idea what this new one's going to have but I can't imagine having anything more than it already has but I'm sure they'll come up with something but it's going to it's going to transform from the very young to the very old people older than me so so that little tablet was the Amazon Kindle Fire oh it was an Amazon Kindle Fire so I apologize if I heard anybody's feelings but the iPad was just a little better although and I told Chris this earlier I really like the little characters on the Kindle Fire I mean the way they looked they just seemed more uhu cartoonish if I can use that terminology someone asked how old I am hang on a minute I I might have to take off my shoes to figure this one out hang on my short wife's here how old am I 16 I was born 1943 yeah 68 I'm 68 so no yeah no 30 years older than me oh okay but it isn't his birthday okay yeah but I'm 38 I don't own a smart phone what I'd like to know is what is the best method of learning and becom an acquainting with it I'll tell you what I don't care what kind of phone you got I happen to have an iPhone but I had something before this but I'mma tell you especially with this iPhone what you got to do is use it if you don't use it you'll never learn it don't be like me and be too cautious but the first thing you got to do is learn where this button is and you push that and voila and then you got this little Gizmo and you can have a password I kind of take it off because I'm in and out of it so much around here so you slide it over then you have all your apps there you know I first had this people would ask me and I showed it on the inter they asked me what did I have and I I had maybe three things on there now I got all kinds of things and I I try to experiment with them I even have this little cartoon thing here where um oh well maybe it's loading so you see you can do this on the internet and you can show off to your friends and you put in front of your kids and you can have a fun time with this but that's my stash That's The Lorax uh Lorax yeah but it's it's kind of cool kind of fun to have fun with but just little things like that just things to have fun my wife and I we like to have fun what is my favorite piece of tech in Chris's house has it inspired you to buy more well I really have to tell you you know it was kind of interesting with my kids were growing up cuz I was always their dad like I was Adam's dad or Ben's dad or Chris's dad and I can't tell each of you how proud proud I am of Chris and he's probably the best hang on a minute see yeah made me reminder and it boy that was on time I I didn't even plan that one but I used the calendar and it reminded me of something anyway Chris is the best piece of tech in the house and he inspires me and even though he might have to tell me dozen times or so I finally get it finally sinks in and again you know I soer people people we need to be nudged does Chris have a sister no and I always wanted a daughter I had this each time my wife got with child pregnant I would go to Sears and they had this great canopy bed it was white was like a single bed it was a canopy bed and had all the furniture around it as soon as we had a girl I was going to go buy that for her and put it in the house and I never had a daughter so I hope my daughter-in-laws are watching because if they're watching are you listening Diane if they're nice to me I'd almost do anything they'd ask me to do I just I I love ladies and I always want my own daughter and we don't have he doesn't have a sister that we know of yeah that we know of uh did did do you play Minecraft no I haven't done this yet do I have funny pictures of Chris as a kid quite honestly they were all funny but uh we have some fil we have some great films of Chris because Chris I think was born to do what he does because I had this vcr and I I I had this great big thing and I ended up getting a smaller one so I kind of give the bigger one to the kids Chris became his own production and and engineer he did the funniest one I can tell you is this is a singer he likes oh you're going to have to forgive me but he does parodies on songs uh Weird Al Yankovic Weird Al Weird Al Yankovic and Chris did an imitation of him and it's hilarious I didn't think about it cracks me up it was funny and then he did stuff like uh Star Wars and he jees his brothers and uh uh friends and friends around the neighbor neighborhood and he'd have his own little Productions and it was funny when the other kids would forget his line forget their lines and Chris would have to tell them what kind of Internet do I do I have someone's asking tune tonan bunny asked what internet service I have well if you ask Chris someone said is is she hot and if you're talking about my wife absolutely so anyway way which one was I on now oh the internet service if you ask Chris he'll tell you it's very very slow but to me it's fast because we used to have dialup and we made the big jump from dialup to what I want to say was D DLS uh through uh the phone company and we think that's lightning fast but now if I'm going to get into this stuff I'm going to have to look at uh at uh updating it maybe going to cable or something I have to look into that when we get home technology we were on the start of what has happened since then so technology and I think technology is going to grow I think back of the things I've seen in my lifetime how we've gone from uh pencil and paper slide rules uh uh little handout calculator I got a calculator that I bought you must have been in the uh 70s that paid $300 for it and it couldn't do anything I mean it was gigant about like this like this about that thick a brick and U I think about that but it was very expensive it would add subtract multiply divide wouldn't even hold a constant so each calculation you had do separate what's the history of the Pell name we came from Italy that's all the history I really know well I can tell you that both my grandfathers worked for the railroad one worked for the great uh The Rock Island and the other the Great Northwest how are you going to be staying with Chris's house we're staying here until Friday this Friday uh we hate to leave because even my wife was just telling me today how much she she can relax here and I don't know if it's Seattle or or the weather or just being with Chris and Diane or what it is but I know she feels very good here uh how did I live with the dalala well like I say you know that's all we knew see we didn't even know how slow that was until we got the the the DSL or whatever and then we didn't know how how how good wifi was until we got that so I'm learning slow but sure was I ever in the army army absolutely not I was a marine six years United States Marine Corps 1962 through 1968 and so I was in and spent some time in Vietnam but my most my most memorable moments in the military in the Marine Corps I was on Embassy Duty and I was in Ghana Africa AF so if you know anybody that lives in Ghana you got to get them to sign up so I can figure out how I can get back there cuz that's on my bucket list is to get back to Ghana just just for a week or so I just would like to go back I loved it and um it was kind of cool so and the Africans used to love me because believe it or not I used to have my hair was really kinky I mean really kinky and they would carry their pencils up in their hair like this and they and let let go of it of course I got it kind of short right now but I was able to do that and you you to swear I was some God from America I mean it was really neat and they they would come and talk to me all the time oh good we got a an engineer on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe we uh drove alongside of one of those on Route 66 I want to say so that was kind of cool that railroad I have not been to Afghanistan either now or in the past ever visited Hawaii yes I was in Maui and no I didn't get hooked on the shirts them when I was a younger man I wanted to set myself out so people would notice me more I guess I don't know where Chris gets his flamboyant but I I wanted to be noticed so I start wearing these Hawaiian shirts and then yeah I was in saon too and then I found out you couldn't find these crazy things so then in my business where I work I had to go to California and I found this little shop that sold them they were all on sale so I bought a bunch and I I've been wearing them ever since usually every day I have them uh it gets chillier yes I have an iPad it's downstairs gets chillier but uh I love the Hawaiian insurts now um here while back they became real popular and I kind of I kind of get a kick out of it um um when I see kids that have them and the other day we saw a young it was at church actually a young boy in his father had the same shirt it was so cool and they were both Hawaiian yeah you can reach me at Joe purell.com that's Joe and the sign pill.com how many items do you have on your bucket list well the major one is I never want to empty my bucket but uh really um Africa's probably right at the top uh there's some other trips around the US I'd like to have I've been pretty well all over because of the both here as well as abroad but I'd like to get my wife up into New England Maine New Hampshire up in the uh Northeast so have never been to I have never been to South a or South America any any one of them oh I'm from Ghana cool to know you're here send me an email email it's t e r o r D1 in Ghana cool are you in a cow are you out by the lake or where you at cool it's from Ghana from Ghana cool now you know why he's my favorite uh Tech piece around here how long have I been married it only seems like a week or so but I want to say it's been uh how long Judy 40 42 years come October she's telling me 42 years come October oh 42 years come October 17th I knew she was going to ask me don't ever forget your spouse on her one time I was going to throw this Judy uh birthday party and I thought well it was going to be a surprise so I wanted to surprise her I was in college at the time I went to Fair State University in Big Rapids Michigan although I'm an Iowa native but I kept it secret all day and I had people Park all over and they're in the house and we and we surprise her and she she had this look on her face she was mad at me because I didn't wish her happy birthday first day in the morning so now every birthday she has the first day and I do I almost stay up all night so I can make sure I tell her happy birthday in the morning God it's getting thick and here and I need to go get my boots I cry oh okay he's from he's in a C I'm sorry I missed that who who's sending this it says a c is it the name's below it right so you're in a cry cool I was in in the house I can't tell you the address right now I'd have to look but was the marine house where the Marine stay we were right behind where the Ambassador was at the time cool your mom can celebrate her birthday while we celebrate our anniversary okay so cool listen guys I look forward to talking about the budget tomorrow we'll figure out how we're going to do that so see you later byebye\n"