To: Knighty Tin who wrote (90490 ) 4/1/2001 12:31:25 PM From: Knighty Tin Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 132070 To All, Sam Houston Race Park beat me up last night. The good news is, thoroughbred season will be over tonight (I won't be in attendance as I now have to wake up before 10 am and some idiot legislated that I give up an hour of my sleep this weekend). 2 weeks down and 14-15 to go on this training program. My chances of survival look good. The question is whether or not I'll be a brain dead zombie by the time I grad-jee-ate. O.K., some will say that wouldn't be a change or might even be a change for the better. <g> I feel like I am working under cover. EVERYONE I see on a daily basis is calling a bottom. Unless I see Jennifer Lopez, I don't make such calls. <g> One thing for certain: I will be unique in the industry once I'm up and running. Unique doesn't necessarily mean good. It just means nobody else is dumb enough to approach the job the way I will. Which is funny, considering that I will be doing what was standard for good reps back in the 1960s. I am really hot to trot and this waiting period is burning a hole in my gut. ("I got a hole where my stomach disappeared, you ask why I don't leave here, I ask 'why are you so weird?'" Apologies to Bobby Dylan). BTW, all of my friends who live in Minnesota's Iron Range swear that Dylan's real last name in Zimperman, not Zimmerman. Anyone know the truth? I am having a corrupting influence on the younger guy training with me. We go to wholesaler's meetings and he will come back and say "what that guy says makes sense." My comment is, "check the real performance in a neutral source." Then he will say, "I wouldn't put my clients in this thing. It sucks." If I can just corrupt one young mind a year, I have done my duty. <g> Best, Naughty Knighty