Thursday the Library Board decided to have a Hail and Fairwell, to welcome the incoming director and say goodbye to the outgoing director (me). Thursday is also the day my Rotary Club meets. One would have thought that the correct way of saying that is "My old Rotary Club", but at that meeting they made me an honorary member of the Club for the rest of my life. What an unexpected honor! I served as President of this club back in 1996-1997.
The next year you serve as the Past President on the Board, and I also became the assistant editor of the newsletter working with Rudy Gandy. Rudy was doing the newsletter on a typewriter, taking it to a local copy company to get enough copies made, he then folded them and put a stamp on them and mailed them out. This was a very costly way to communicate to club members. With my computer skills, Rudy got me the information and I did the newsletter on a word processor, printing out enough copies to mail out, and soon I started a Rotary Website, put the newsletter on it and started to email it to those who had email. Within a few years we saved a bunch of $$$$, and soon 80-90% of the club members got it through email, and a few years ago we stopped the hard copy altogether. We also now have an archive dating back to 1998. Rudy passed away in 2005. Around the year 2000 we were co-editors with his being more of an honorary position. It remained that way through the rest of his life. He had been doing the newsletter for probably 15-20 years before I got involved.
That night at the Hail and Fairwell, the Mayor of Pine Bluff read a letter and proclamation, essentially naming March 29, 2012 as Dave Burdick Day within the City of Pine Bluff. I saw many friends, past staff members, my daughter Stephanie drove up from Louisiana and my youngest son Ryan from Fayetteville where he attends the UofA...I only wish it could have been held at a time that the Libraries were closed so that any of the staff who wished to attend could have been there, and I wish my son Michael could have been there, and of course, Marcia, who is still recovering from hip replacement.
And no on to today...the day I finally head out and hit the road. After spending part of Friday afternoon replacing my air filter in the motor home, it was ready to go. Now when you think of an air filter for a motor home, you need to think big!
It did not take too long, and it is nice knowing that our RV has fresh oil, oil filter, gas filter, (Speedco did that work), and now a new air filter (25" long if you are wondering), the old one was very dirty, so the RV will run much nicer, and gas mileage will be much better.
Saturday I made into an easy day, no hurry, took my time, got ready to go. I went by the Library to say "see you in six months" to a staff member, and I got a blank key made for the HHR, (A key that does not have a chip in it. When we tow it, it has to be turned to the on (not start) position, put in neutral, and then turn the key off, but you can't turn all the way off, so it stays in the HHR. Without the chip, it can't start, so it makes it hard to steal if a thief comes along during the night while I sleep.)
By 1:30 I had everything done, I said goodbye to Gwen, the RV Park Managers, and was ready to go.
Below is a shot just past Altheimer.
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