Anthony Munoz and the Associate Manager Outing
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I don’t talk about work a whole lot on my website, unless it is something dramatically significant – like a job switch or friends who I have made through work. I enjoy my job and am thankful for it, but the day-to-day activities wouldn’t hold much interest to the average reader – and of course, there’s always the risk of saying something stupid and getting fired! But seriously, the second week of September saw a couple of work-related events actually worth reporting. Read the rest of this entry »
For the first full day of the Sons of the Desert convention, Thursday, July 10, we basically spent the entire day in Amsterdam again. Not that touring the city wasn’t enjoyable, but it certainly didn’t feel much like a real convention, given that we were away from the hotel for almost the entire day. That morning I had another one of those huge, filling, and delicious European breakfast buffets in the hotel restaurant and then quickly caught one of four buses transporting the convention delegates to Amsterdam. 
September 1997 had been very good to me in the way of through-the-mail autograph collecting. As you have seen, I had a multitude of successes and only a handful of unanswered requests. The failures were Suzy Delair, Kathy Shower, Orson Bean, Jason Bateman, Barbi Benton, and Alyssa Milano. Quite an eclectic crew, wouldn’t you say? As October began, the natural follow-up to my previous request of 
Over a decade before I had ever even heard the expression ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ when I first visited Disneyland in 1988, I had determined that the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World was in fact the happiest place on Earth. Words cannot adequately express the nostalgic chunk of memory firmly rooted in my brain when it comes to my second visit to Disney World in the early Summer of 1977. At the age of five, my mind was made up: this was my kind of place.