My son Riley's five man auto body shop, Monarch Collision, placed second in the Seattle Times Best of the Pacific Northwest awards. This is very cool and I'm really proud of them!

Speaking of Seattle, I was telling Ricky yesterday about the paratransit outfit I worked for there, but I didn't elaborate. I forgot to mention ATC Vancom was the largest paratransit company on the west coast and one of the largest in the country. I won the very first employee of the year award and went on to become the lead supervisor. I wrote the manual and trained six new supervisors from our driver pool. That's were I met Steph, she was the receptionist.

The point I'm trying to make is that winning an award can bring recognition and great things down the road. For these guys to place second in a huge auto body repair market is amazing!