This print week alone, meaning from roughly last Tuesday night to Tuesday of this week when we finished the pages, I got to interview the new owner of the old Sarah's Cafe building about why he bought it; one of the uses he anticipates it will have; the warm welcome he and his family have had; and how their new home, the historic customs house, will have aspects that add to the community's experience of community.

Is that not cool enough to think reporting is a job worth considering? How about, the same week, getting to interview the grandson of one of the operators of a steamboat that was a part of life in Wiscasset and some of its neighbor towns as it carried mail and people? Are you shrugging, if that is possible? How about when he mentioned he worked at Bath Iron Works 42 years and so I, as an aside, ask what I always ask people who worked there decades ago: Did he know my father, who, when he was still on the payroll after a half century, had been on the payroll longer than anyone else who was also on it then?

The interviewee, Steve Erskine, knew him and Erskine recalled manning the tugboat. Erskine recalled asking a visiting member of Congress from Maine to don a personal flotation device (PFD), even though Erskine would not be untying the boat. Erskine said they were declining and that my father, George Johns, walked over, said, "Just do it," and walked away.

And the member of Congress put on the PFD, Erskine said.

Among current events this print cycle, I got to interview an architect in on the ground floor of what may be 170 apartments on Route One, Wiscasset.

When I started reporting 40 years ago, I thought one of the selling points, besides the writing, would be it was something different every day. I was right! If you would like a usually interesting, always demanding and therefore fulfilling job, please consider applying, as we have been looking for another reporter for our Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper team.

Please be a self-motivator, for the news keeps on coming no matter how long it takes us to gather it, produce it and move on to the next thing and/or work multiple stories at a time.

Pretty exciting, eh?