Follow up from Steve

From: Steve
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:39:05 -0500
To: Scott

Scott,

As always, this is gem of a message. Matt was very fortunate in his friendships.

I can't match the tone of this message, but the air guitar scene reminded me of something I saw not long ago. It's attached.

Thanks again for the tune. I love it.

Steve

From: Scott
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006
To: Steve

This picture is freakin' awesome. Thanks.
S

From: Steve
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006
To: Scott

I thought you'd like it. Feel free to send to Budd and Dave Lamb. I bet they'd get a kick out of it, too.

From:Scott
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006
To: Steve

Yeah, I bet they will.

You know, I took your advice and Googled myself the other day... Then I Googled you. Nice picture on the company website, Steve. So professional looking.

From: Steve
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006
To: Scott

OK, that's just mean. But:

A buddy Googled me about a year ago and somehow found some cross country results from 1986. It took me two hours to get him to stop needling me about being as slow as the girls.

So you're not as far down the list as he is.

Isn't it cool that you have 2 pages of hits?

From: Scott
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006
To: Steve

Yes, it was cool to see all of the attention being paid to American Standard. I may get to see a rough cut in a couple of weeks, I'm not sure.

As for those Cross Country results... I was, like, always one of the last people to finish. I think Matt was actually a little slower than me. Then again, we didn't go out for CC for the athleticism. It was purely social.

Somewhere out there, someone has a pic from my senior year when the whole team piled in and on the Whomobile. I wish I had it. Maybe Phil has it. Not sure.

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