It was cheaper to send out a rider on horseback to check the fences than send the truck around to check, since gas was so expensive, and I loved that ...uty: I got to work by myself and be responsible for myself, out in the open on that big ranch. Of course, there were other jobs, jobs which frequently seemed to involve cow manure. I’d rather ride the fences! I’d dated a couple of girls in Elko, but it never turned into anything serious. I didn’t really like Elko all that much: it was a boring,. I have about 100 hours of shows recorded on my two TV recorders, and I fall asleep trying to watch TV when I am home. The only time I eat a hot meal is here when you bring me leftovers. What would I possibly have to offer a girl?" It kind of upset me when I said it, but I know I have to put all my time, money, life, and effort into my company."Do you ever go on dates, Dave? I have lots of friends with daughters your age. If Melissa (Her daughter) wasn't engaged, I would have introduced you to. I needed you to show me all of the technical advantages that you have available to you. And then take the time to argue against them. If I had been standing in a classroom with whiteboards and graphic displays, you would have politely listened to everything I had to say. And then discounted all it.”“Why? Well, and this’ll hurt you, not me. I don’t have a piled higher and deeper degree like you do, Doc. Academically I am a zero. Hell, I didn’t even graduate high school. What I’m trying to say is. Now, they wanted to hear it all.They laughed and grinned with pride at one another as their sons told their stories about the hunt, and about finding skeletons in the cave with the buried gold and money. They listened to each of them tell the story about killing their first big buck and how they were excited just to be out there together.When the Bucks told them of making travois for the mules so they could haul their deer and supplies back on, they thought the story was about to wind down.“How.