On the off chance he actually reads this site or bothers with an RSS feed, I won’t tell you what I sent him but it was awesome. Who wants a great surprise ruined?
Doc (nee Lee) is the guy who has made much of my life in Austin possible, even while I was a student at Marquette, this person was guiding me to my eventual career. Thanks to his personal Macintosh SE and a printer-based scanner, I had one of the more interesting final projects for Journalism 166 (I think): Desktop Publishing. Keep in mind, I was taking this course in 1990, the bar for impressive was set pretty low.
His assistance fueled a change and gave me hope to find work after graduation since radio/broadcasting has lost its appeal: too many people trapped in the Seventies then.
Eventually it led to brief series of jobs with publishing and then Apple.
Here’s hoping he has a great weekend celebrating with Masami and his new son Nicholas. I told him in an e-mail I will have to call his son Doc Jr. due to my nephew and godson already having this name.