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Last night was Miss Dudley's 50th Birthday Surprise Party. But I'm getting ahead of myself... let me back up and explain who Miss Dudley is.
Pat Cashman is a local Seattle celebrity, having appeared on and written for the local comedy tv show "Almost Live!". He also does quite a bit of voice-over work for commercials, has appeared on some national television commercial spots, and of course there was his radio show. Over the years he did morning shows for three different local radio stations, and the peak of the show was undeniably during its years appearing on 100.7 The Buzz. The show featured Pat Cashman, Lisa Foster, and Dustin Hornby, and the three were pretty much allowed to do whatever fool thing sprang into their heads without interferance by the station management. The show became a hilarious, family-friendly, stream-of-consciousness extravaganza. There was one week-long bit of improvised drama where an alien invasion from the planet Eromnek was thwarted when Billy the Goat drank the contents of a small fish tank containing Lisa's sea monkeys. One of the things that made the show so much fun was the cast of characters that would call in, all of whom were just random listeners who Pat had never met before. Many were so good that they became recurring fixtures of the show; Marion the Poet (imagine an italian mobster hit man delivering flowery prose), Eggo Joe (who called in regularly with new Eggo recipes), Clem Phlergm (who is just too damn quick and funny to be beleived), and of course there was the delightful southern belle Miss Dudley who claimed to be Dave Dudley's sister.
Miss Dudley's calls were always a treat, and over the years she became a good friend of Pat's. As it turns out, Miss Dudley's real name is Lynn, and she is actually a lawyer practicing family law here in Seattle. Not surprisingly, she is also as delightfully funny in person as she was on the radio. For her 50th birthday her husband Dennis planned out a masterful surprise party, in which Lynn thought she was going to a local concert only to walk into the hall to find hundreds of her friends from all walks of life gathered to wish her a happy birthday. The look on her face when she came in the door was priceless, a mixture of shock combined with the joy and flattery that her husband would do this and her friends would participate. It was truly a magical moment.
Those in attendance included Pat Cashman and his wife Patty, Clem Phlergm, Eggo Joe, The Surf Dude and his wife The Scene Queen, Professor Fred Hopkins, and a roomful of other fun people. It really was a fun evening.
At one point Pat came over and asked me how my plans for the move were going, and we talked about Disney World for a while. He was very fascinated with the effect that it has on Ben, and suggested that the Disney company would probably be very interested in the story from a PR standpoint. He also highly recommended GatorLand as the cheesiest roadside attraction to go waste a few hours at.
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In other news, I wrapped up the Production Dispute project I have been working on this past week, and I must say I am pretty damn proud of it. I added some very nice subtle flourishes to it that really tie the whole thing together and I am looking forward to doing the final UI review for it tomorrow. It looks like I am also going to pick up another highly visible project in the near future -- the Publications Planner. It's a bit more complex that Production Disputes was, but it is still pretty self-contained so I can work on it apart from the rest of the application. It is a tool that will be used by all of the member travel agencies as well as by the publications department, and is the source of one of the major revenue generators for the company. Needless to say, I am thrilled to have my name attached to it. Best of all, it looks like it will be a heck of a lot of fun to write, and we are going to tackle it using an Agile Development methedology that will let me go through rapid iterations of the product and get it in front of real users for refinement throughout the development process. I am *really* looking forward to this.
Pat Cashman is a local Seattle celebrity, having appeared on and written for the local comedy tv show "Almost Live!". He also does quite a bit of voice-over work for commercials, has appeared on some national television commercial spots, and of course there was his radio show. Over the years he did morning shows for three different local radio stations, and the peak of the show was undeniably during its years appearing on 100.7 The Buzz. The show featured Pat Cashman, Lisa Foster, and Dustin Hornby, and the three were pretty much allowed to do whatever fool thing sprang into their heads without interferance by the station management. The show became a hilarious, family-friendly, stream-of-consciousness extravaganza. There was one week-long bit of improvised drama where an alien invasion from the planet Eromnek was thwarted when Billy the Goat drank the contents of a small fish tank containing Lisa's sea monkeys. One of the things that made the show so much fun was the cast of characters that would call in, all of whom were just random listeners who Pat had never met before. Many were so good that they became recurring fixtures of the show; Marion the Poet (imagine an italian mobster hit man delivering flowery prose), Eggo Joe (who called in regularly with new Eggo recipes), Clem Phlergm (who is just too damn quick and funny to be beleived), and of course there was the delightful southern belle Miss Dudley who claimed to be Dave Dudley's sister.
Miss Dudley's calls were always a treat, and over the years she became a good friend of Pat's. As it turns out, Miss Dudley's real name is Lynn, and she is actually a lawyer practicing family law here in Seattle. Not surprisingly, she is also as delightfully funny in person as she was on the radio. For her 50th birthday her husband Dennis planned out a masterful surprise party, in which Lynn thought she was going to a local concert only to walk into the hall to find hundreds of her friends from all walks of life gathered to wish her a happy birthday. The look on her face when she came in the door was priceless, a mixture of shock combined with the joy and flattery that her husband would do this and her friends would participate. It was truly a magical moment.
Those in attendance included Pat Cashman and his wife Patty, Clem Phlergm, Eggo Joe, The Surf Dude and his wife The Scene Queen, Professor Fred Hopkins, and a roomful of other fun people. It really was a fun evening.
At one point Pat came over and asked me how my plans for the move were going, and we talked about Disney World for a while. He was very fascinated with the effect that it has on Ben, and suggested that the Disney company would probably be very interested in the story from a PR standpoint. He also highly recommended GatorLand as the cheesiest roadside attraction to go waste a few hours at.
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In other news, I wrapped up the Production Dispute project I have been working on this past week, and I must say I am pretty damn proud of it. I added some very nice subtle flourishes to it that really tie the whole thing together and I am looking forward to doing the final UI review for it tomorrow. It looks like I am also going to pick up another highly visible project in the near future -- the Publications Planner. It's a bit more complex that Production Disputes was, but it is still pretty self-contained so I can work on it apart from the rest of the application. It is a tool that will be used by all of the member travel agencies as well as by the publications department, and is the source of one of the major revenue generators for the company. Needless to say, I am thrilled to have my name attached to it. Best of all, it looks like it will be a heck of a lot of fun to write, and we are going to tackle it using an Agile Development methedology that will let me go through rapid iterations of the product and get it in front of real users for refinement throughout the development process. I am *really* looking forward to this.
