Wednesday, August 1, 2018
I remember all the trips in the old 1960 Chevy Pickup truck to and Fort Collins/Colorado State. We would share our hopes and dreams, places we were going to go. Danyel was lucky enough to see most of world, and share it with me as part of the slide show she had put together. I help her put together the musical track for it. I also think of all the M.A.S.H and Pizza study breaks on Monday nights. For what started out as PizzaCo at $3 for a medium pizza and 2 cokes, was a tradition we had for around a decade. After we graduated from CSU, we would go to Godfathers pizza. Godfathers had these pitchers for Coke you could refill for free, so we must have drank half a gallon each. We stopped doing it after Danyel finished law school. I remember the trip from Montrose to move Danyel back to Denver. I drove Danyel's car, and Danyel drove the UHaul. We used walkie-talkies to communicate between the vehicles. The UHaul she rented was having issues but we made it to our planned stop overnight. The Uhaul was looked at the next morning, and we made it back to Denver. My favorite memory was when Danyel was in the process of becoming Danyel. Doug came to Chicago in 2007 for a taping of Wait, Wait dont tell me, since I was working near by I took the 4 days off that Doug had planned. We had fun together, and the last day Doug introduced me to Danyel, and told me she was in the process of changing everything in Doug's life to be Danyel. The last time I saw Danyel was on a business trip to Denver in January and we agreed that I would try and find a job in Denver so we could have dinner at least once a week. I called Doug my friend for 37 years, and Danyel for an additional 10 years. Together (Danyel and Doug) helped me understand some of the things I was going thru, and for 47 years of my life that were made better for knowing them.
