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Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg
New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.
I'm D.J. Rasmussen, O.K.s friend since junior high, possibly your neighbor & this websites maintainer, whom strives to get each episode's show notes written, the transcript proofed and the audio posted to the internet within a few hours of that days KMMR air time. NOTE: recently been publishing most new releases by 4:30PM.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the time we can spend together.
Wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea. Is that wind still blowing? Bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.85 a bushel. 550lb Steer calf $5 to $5.10 a pound. A butcher hog in Iowa 62¢ a pound, and a 100lb fat lamb in Billings $2.75 a pound. But guys there's more much more.
OK Solberg:Today. Well, today, a story I crafted myself. Do you like that word crafted? A writer uses words. Listen. Crafted, fashioned, modeled, made, forged. Listen.
OK Solberg:Have you ever noticed something? A man can leave the house without his lunch, without his hat, and well, sometimes even without remembering what day of the week it is. But but let him leave the house without his cell phone, and suddenly the whole world tilts a little bit sideways. Oh, he doesn't notice it right away. Oh, no.
OK Solberg:He doesn't or it never would have happened in the 1st place. He gets halfway to work. While singing a little tune to himself, cup of coffee in one hand and the steering wheel like a glove in the other. Then it happens, the pocket pat. Oh, left pocket nothing, right pocket nothing on the passenger seat empty and right there at 60 miles an hour a cold sweat falls upon him.
OK Solberg:Kinda like a draft from under the barn door. His phone is not with him. Now realize with me, this is a man who may not receive a single phone call all day. No urgent telephone messages. No announcement from the governor.
OK Solberg:Maybe not even a text from his cousin about fishing last week. And yet without that glowing rectangular thing, he feels strangely naked. Like a butcher without a knife, a baker without his pan, a cowboy without his hat on a windy day. Of course, the day still moves forward. Of course, he gets his work done.
OK Solberg:Coffee still, well, tastes like coffee. But ever so often, that hand drifts back to his pocket. There he is patting it again, hoping, maybe wishing that somehow it magically returned. And by the end of the day, this poor fella has learned something rather curious. It isn't that he needed to make a call.
OK Solberg:He just needed to know he could. That's when he finally gets back home. What do you think the 1st thing he does? You know as well as I. He goes in search of his long lost love And like the pretty girl saying yes to his request to go to the prom, he feels that delight when he sees his girl sitting right on the counter where he left it.
OK Solberg:And he realizes something else. The world didn't end, the sky didn't fall, and he survived the day just fine. And he wonders and he wonders to himself, should I do it again tomorrow? No. No.
OK Solberg:No. I can't go through that again. I was as uncomfortable as a librarian without her glasses. I was like a carpenter without a hammer or a storyteller with, well, without a story. I wrote that after I left my phone in the office.
OK Solberg:They say, write what you know. Well, I write wrote what I felt. I know. I misplaced my cell phone and I know I'm getting better. I'm married to it. Not really.
OK Solberg:I'll close with a bible verse and then let the weekend begin. Luke 15:8 Or what woman having lost 10 silver coins, if she loses 1 coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it. Oh, perfect verse for a lost cell phone. Yeah. The bible knows what I'm talking about.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.