Actually, just kidding. It is my wife.

In spite of my lambasting her for wasting time, money and energy sitting for the Registered Diplomate Reporter exam while spending nary a nanosecond studying, Susan Perry Miller is an RDR. The story goes that a court reporting instructor years ago told Suse that she'd never make it in this profession. Those acquainted with my wife will find no difficulty believing that her quest for court reporting's brass ring was fueled entirely by her desire to make this nameless, all-but-forgotten meatsack eat a lethal dose of crow. Hell, I've been reminding her I don't think she can cook for a couple years now, but my comments haven't been met with the same ardent desire to prove me wrong.

It's amazing how often court reporting instructors get it wrong. Had you asked any of the teachers at the Stenograph Institute of Texas what they thought of me, certainly the consensus would have been "loud-mouthed, know-it-all egomaniac with a God complex" -- well, maybe sometimes they're right...

Regardless, without calling out any names, if you went to Capital City Careers in Austin during the mid '80s and know under which rock to find an instructor with the initials D.B., tell her Sue's doin' just fine.

"You're the luckiest man in the world. There is, believe me, Gentlemen, nothing sexier on earth than a woman you have to salute in the morning." - Jack Nicholson as Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, "A Few Good Men"