Met the governor and more.

Today at Barr's new building dedication they honored Steve, and I and the kids were invited. We all met Bob Taft and Rob Portman. Sam Malone was there, he's a friend of Steve's and Karl's. Anyway Rob Portman and Bob Taft said their kudos to Steve about his service in Iraq. Steve got a long, strong applause from all his colleagues (about 300 or so in attendance). His boss, boss's boss, boss's boss's boss, and boss's boss's boss's boss were there. :) They were all honoring him. Steve doesn't like attention so he was embarrassed and they applauded more. He received as an honor from the governor a flag of Ohio, and also a US flag that was flown over the US Capitol one year after 9/11/01, with the accompanying certification. The flags are quite an heirloom. Can you imagine what our descendants will think of them 100 years from now!

The Duramed/Barr place is a good place. Except for what I discussed before, I think it's a good company. The people there are wonderful. They make generic drugs that cut the price to consumers sometimes by 90% or even more. Stuff for rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, ADD (huge part of their sales), depression (Prozac generic equivalent), anti-ovulatory contraception (reducing to 4 "periods" a year), the "change" (the showcase product Cenestin), breast cancer, stuff to stop labor, stuff to begin labor, and more and more stuff all at a fraction of the name brand costs. So when people say The Big Drug Companies, they don't mean Barr. However, my HUGE reservation is why Barr dipped its hands into that other medicine, which is basically a concentrated "pill"...to take within 72 (but they prefer 24) hours. As I said before, to prevent ovulation or fertilization, but not implantation, is right. That isn't made at Barr/Duramed, which is some small consolation, but not a huge bunch. It's still a Barr subsidiary, one which they bought last year. But it has not been approved for OTC and I hope it never, ever will be. Can you imagine the use/abuse of that if it's sold OTC?

Dan I need your help putting on a back deck- like the one you did in front- our insurance company's threatening major mayhem if we don't do something. Call me!

PS Oralia still doesn't know she's pregnant. Neither phone numbers for her work, so tomorrow I'm going to try to find her. :) ORALIA DONDE ESTAS?!!!!!! You're going to have another little baby with a precious little Mayan face! ORALIA TE ESTOY BUSCANDO!