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Today is the first day of spring.  Signs of spring have not been abundant.  I have not seen a robin yet, nor an earth worm.  The ice is still on all the lakes around St. John’s. But hope springs eternal.

My drafting career ended in the early seventies.  The second of my five careers was in office furnishings.  I started working as a sales rep for General Office Products in 1971.  Roy Utne was part owner.   Shortly after I started working there, Roy called me into his office and said:  “Osberg, if you get a 10 and a 2 and a meaningful lunch, you will be falling off of your billfold.”   It is not easy to get a 10 and a 2 appointment and a meaningful lunch.  Ever since covid, getting a face-to-face appointment is much harder.  If I do my job right, I meet three new people every month.  This month I made my goal.  

When you come to my “celebration of life” at the Paramount Center for the Arts, there will be a grey ring binder on a table in the lobby.  Inside of that ring binder you will find a list of the 24 companies that I have worked for since 1961 and 44 calling cards.  The first calling card has only my name:  Gary Michael Osberg.  Every graduate of Upsala High School class of 1961 got a box of calling cards to send along with the invitations to the graduation ceremony.  The last 8 cards are all from Minnesota Public Radio.  Titles changed, logos changed and we used to have a fax machine. 

Tonight, at 7:30,  the Beo String Quartet is performing at the Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown St Cloud.  Tickets are available at www.paramountarts.org     I have two tickets in row G for the performance for the first person to reply to this email.  I will leave them at the will call window for you. 

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”  Emily Dickinson