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| PUBLISHER’S MESSAGE For many years, I’ve had two recurring dreams. Nightmares, really. In the first, I’m late to a football game. The team is counting on me, and I’m sprinting to the locker room with a massive duffle bag draped over my shoulder. No one is there because they’re already on the field. Over the PA system, I hear the announcement: “Let’s stand for the kickoff!” I look across the plaza. It’s my high school on a crisp Friday night. The lights are beaming down. I’m panicking as I rifle through my bag when I realize my shoulder pads are missing. So is my helmet. The PA clicks on again to ask a question: “Where’s Tom Franciskovich?” The crowd boos. I wake up in my bed, gasping for air in a cold sweat. The second dream unfolds as follows: I sit down for an interview and click on my favorite, trusty voice recorder. The tiny, red light glows indicating it’s on. For an hour, I dazzle the interviewee with incisive, thought-provoking questions. Over and over again, I’m told, “I can’t believe I’m telling you this, but . . .” I get one scoop after another, going deeper and deeper into the most incredible interview of my career. Periodically, I glance at the red light to ensure the tape is still rolling. It is. I try not to smile as the interview subject gushes on. Afterward, I head back to the office, plug the voice recorder into my computer and click “upload.” Then, nothing. The tape is blank. I wake up in my bed, gasping for air in a cold sweat. More than a decade ago, my wife, Sheryl, and I were struggling to launch the very first issue of SLO LIFE Magazine. I was working from a home office. At the time, our youngest, Harrison, was only a year old. As much as I loved to have him curled up in my lap as I clanked on my keyboard, it was just not working. He was far too interested in joining every conversation and typing along with me. At the time, it was a big leap for us, but it was clear we needed a real, actual office. I moved into a windowless space at the San Luis Business Center, the broom closet suite. Just down the hall from me was a fresh-faced kid who had recently graduated from Cal Poly. Each day, when I’d go to the mailroom—praying for more checks than bills—I’d stop by to say “hello” to Jesse Dundon. He was so happy to have moved out of his garage and into a real, actual office. When I asked him what exactly his company, Hathway Tech, did, he explained it, but I didn’t really understand what he was talking about. Then, he would joke around and say the same thing he always did during those quick exchanges: “Hey, you should put me on the cover!” I would smile and dismiss him with a wave as I continued toward the mailroom, thinking to myself, “Yeah, yeah, kid, whatever.” Fast-forward ten years. Jesse has grown Hathway into a booming technology operation with more than a hundred employees. Now, the shoe was on the other foot, and I found myself trying to talk him into being on our cover. As a young CEO with a one-year-old son, it was much more difficult to track him down than it had been when we first met. But I finally did. And, after much back-and-forth, we found a window of time to talk. We sat down, and ninety minutes later, I knew I had it, a great Meet Your Neighbor story. I said “goodbye” and retreated to my office where I plugged the recorder into my computer. The screen was blank. Nothing. Zilch. I felt a surge of electricity shoot through me. But I didn’t wake up—because I wasn’t asleep. It took a week before I could bring myself to send an email admitting what had happened. I started it like this: “Hey, Jesse, you’re not going to believe this, but I have this recurring dream, and it finally came true.” Of all the people who could have made that dream a reality for me over the past ten years, he was the perfect choice as he graciously sat for a second interview. And, as we talked, I fully expected to hear a booming voice announce, “Let’s stand for the kickoff!” Thank you to everyone who has had a hand in producing this issue of SLO LIFE Magazine and, most of all, to our advertisers and subscribers—we couldn’t do it without you! Live the SLO Life! Recurrence Tom Franciskovich tom@slolifemagazine.com p.s. If you’d like to read more visit me at tomfranciskovich.com 12 | SLO LIFE MAGAZINE | OCT/NOV 2020
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