Thursday, September 23, 2004

Greg Johnson trots into the corral

Holy Blazing Saddles! The Trailboss just received the following from Classmate Greg Johnson in Burnsville. He first fingered Tom Kiehne and Tom Obert for the posse and then posted this note in reponse to the question, "Whatever have you been doing, Greg?":

Me, shucks. I'm jus sittin' 'round the campfire fartin'.
But seriously folkes. I've been working for mother Honeywell for the last 33 years. Primarily as a data architect - data modeling and database design. If you need a database, pardner, I can design and build it.
I've been married for 25 years to my wife Linda, who is from Pine Island, Minnesota. She grew up on a farm so I spect she'll find The Corral a comfy place to shuck her boots for an afternoon.
We have one chile, honey. Her name is Alexandra, and was adopted from India when she was 3 years old. She will be 14 years old in about a week. She attends Valley Middle School in Apple Valley, MN, in the 8th grade.
For the last eight years I've been going to Guatemala for two weeks to do project work for a Mission in the small town of San Lucas Toliman. Things like building houses, digging ditches for water lines, sorting coffee beans, planting cyprus trees, building cement stoves. It's become a large part of my life, and have found it very rewarding.
Well, that's about it for now. I think I'll tend to that campfire.
Adios, amigo.