and mark twain roughing it a over friday's station and served as a pony express station four snowshoer thompson and his beleaguered mail carriers as well as a place for grandpa pat to get a back door plate of irish stew from sister maggie park. one more word about my grandfather i said no one can say for sure my grandfather was used as a model for the 1930 the iceman cometh but he did resemble the central character in two important ways. he loved to talk and he loved to drink but not necessarily in that order. so my irish relatives are giggling and resonating with that one. later in life i went to boarding school in the '60s at berkeley which was a wild place to send a guy like me in the middle of the '60s. in 64 i went away to st. mary's college a number of tahoe parents ascend the firstborn rails there from -- 27 from discourage of public education it was too early to know madonna was a product of a catholic high school. the school was all boys all the time it would cement and there was constant thoughts about imaginary girls broke other things that happen at a boarding school makes you long