all the questions and answers.  Amy's account makes her father more 3-dimensional as she says.  I enjoyed that she says he's told her that you can always judge a person by how he treats the supposedly least important individual in the room.  This is an extremely important point.  Reminds me of the story of William McKinley, maybe apocryphal but a good story nonetheless, who was presented with two office-seekers when he became president, both of suitable backgrounds for the job.  He recalled a time when he was riding a tram and both office-seekers were on it, and he witnessed one of the men ignore a person who needed a seat (probably a pregnant or poor or elderly woman) and the other rise up and offer his to her.  And he chose the one who had given up his seat.  Would that we could pick our politicians with this in mind, instead of based on how tough they act or how many sound bytes they can utter convincingly.  We should look at the person beneath the suit and not at the facade.

...at least until 3 PM.

Stupid, distracting work-related phone calls.