lOST A GREAT FRIEND, PRESSURE RELIEVED,

LAST NIGHT THE PHONE RANG AT 11:25....I RARELY ANSWER THE PHONE, BUT THE CALLER WAS INSISTANT.....SO I FINALLY ANSWERED IT , BUT DREADED THE DECISION....IT WAS MY FRIEND BARBARA, WHO WAS CRYING. SHE SAID "DAVE HARDY DIED" DAVE WAS A WONDERFUL PERSON....A FRIEND WHO WAS THE ONE THAT ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, HAD A GIANT BRAIN TUMOR REMOVED..HE WAS DYING IN A HOSPITAL IN PLAINFIELD....I SUGGESTED THAT MIKE SISTI, WORLD REKNOWN BRAIN SURGEON SEE HIM...I CALLED MIKE, AND AGREED TO TAKE HIM THE NEXT DAY. HE SIAD THAT HE DIDNT HAVE BRAIN CANCER, AND THE MEDICATION THE HOSPITAL WAS WHAT WAS KILLING HIM QUICKLY. HE OPERATED, AND REMOVED THE LARGEST TUMOR HE HAD EVER SEEN....AND IN TWO MONTHS, DAVE RECUPERATED AND WAS AT BARBARAS XMAS PARTY. WE USED TO HAVE A WEEKLY COMPUTER CLUB MEETING, BUT AFTER THE MODERATOR AND COMPUTER EXPERT RANAWAY WITH A YOUNG GIRL AND GOT MARRIED, THE GROUP FELL APART..AND I SAW LESS OF DAVE.....
HE AND BARBARA WERE FREIND FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AND BARBARA IS DEVASTATED..LOOSING A FRIEND OF 40 YEARS....NOT JUST A FRIEND BUT CONFIDANT...THE ONE THAT ENCOURAGED HER TO GO TO LAW SCHOOL,.....HE WAS A TRUE FRIEND....TO HER. DAVE HARDY WAS A NEWSPAPER MAN...A WRITER AND CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE....A TRULY ELEGANT MAN...AND THE CLOSET PERSON I CAN COMPARE HIM TO IS COLIN POWELL, WHO COULD HAVE RUN FOR VICE PRESIDENT...BUT COULDNT TAKE ANY MORE OF GEROGE BUSH AND HIS ADMINISTRATION OF DEATH!! DAVE WAS ARTICULATE, BRILLIANT, AND JUST WONDERFUL TO BE AROUND. I AM SO SORRY THAT I DIDNT KNOW HIM LONGER...AND GAINED MORE OF HIS WISDOM.......DAVE, LIKE ME, WAS BORN IN 1942, AND SAW THE WORLD CHANGE IN SO MANY WAYS.
WE BOTH SAW AMERICAN SAVED FROM THE AXIS POWERS....COLOR TELEVISION, THE CELL PHONE, THE COMPUTER,TWITTER AND FACEBOOK, ASSASINATION OF JFK, BOBBY KENNEDY, MARTIN LUTHER KING AND JOHN LENNON, KOREAN WAR, VIET NAM, TWO IRAQI WARS,......LANDING ON THE MOON, PASSENGER JETS,LAPROSCOPIC SURGERY, MIRACLE DRUGS, STAR TREK,....AND FRONZEN FOOD....AND THE LIST CAN GO ON AND ON.....FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE INTERESTED......GOOGLE DAVY HARDY AND SEE WHAT HE WAS ALL ABOUT. A VERY INTERESTING MAN....WHO SUED ONE OF NEW YORKS MOST IMPORTANT NEWSPAPERS AND WON!!!!!
FOR THE PAST 45 YEARS, BUSINESS FROM THANKSGIVING TO XMAS IS HORRIBLE. SINCE THE ADVENT OF THE MALL....WHOSE INCEPTION IN NJ WAS ABOUT 1969....PEOPLE STOPPED GOING DOWNTOWN SHOPPING..THEY GO TO THE MALL. SMALL TOWNS SUFFERED SINCE THEN....TRAFFIC LESSENED.....EVEN THE NEW ROADS TOOK PEOPLE AROUND THE TOWNS,...NOT THRU IT....THIS SEASON WAS NO DIFFERENT FOR US....BUT TODAY.......WAS THE BEST DAY...WE HAVE HAD SINCE WE MOVED TO HOHOKUS.
THE FIRST CUSTOMER BOUGHT SOMETHING...AT ABOUT 10:20, AND PEOPLE CAME IN IN DROVES TODAY.....AND MANY OF THEM BOUGHT, AND SPENT A LOT OF MONEY....NOT ENOUGH TO PAY ALL MY BILLS...BUT A LOT OF THEM....IF BUSINESS CAN KEEP UP, WE MIGHT EVENTUALLY CATCH UP AND START MAKING MONEY..I ALWAYS TRY TO BE OPTIMISITIC......TONIGHT I WENT TO DINNER(ALL BY MYSELF, WHICH I NEVER DO---AND I FELT A BLACK CLOUD LIFT....THE FACT THINGS PICKED UP SO NICELY.....JUST HAVE TO HOPE EVERYONE PAYS THE BALANCE OF THEIR BILL...AND ALL CHECKS CLEAR)
IT FEELS GOOD..........TO FEEL GOOD AGAIN, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME....HOORAY!
wE HAD PEOPLE ALL DAY LONG....I DIDNT EVEN GET A CHANCE TO EAT BREAKST OR LUNCH....GOOD...THAT MANY LESS CALORIES....AND I WASNT HUNGRY...TO BUSY TALKING AND SELLING....AND MAYBE TOMORROW IT MIGHT CONTINUE.......PRAYERS ANSWERED...AMEN.
A FEW DAYS AGO JOHN WAS RIDING HOME FROM THE OTHER STORE..WHEN A DEER, RAN RIGHT INTO HIS CAR. HE WAS SHOOK UP BUT NOT INJURED....BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEER..DONT WANT TO KNOW...HOPEFULLY...SINCE THERE WAS NO BLOOD...HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONLY BRUISED....AND RAN AWAY...SEEMS THERE IS ALWAYS DRAMA AROUND HERE.....BUY THEN AGAIN, I THINK EVERYONE EVERY WHERE IS FILLED WITH SOME KIND OF DRAMA...WELL ITS LATE, AND TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY...