so when my fathers deep voice the big-time attorney voice that had years ago become his only voice boomed out from my phone , calling from his golf trip in arizona ( talking over the noise of the golf course patio bar at which he was no doubt sitting at all day with his old buddies drinking leisurely and steadily ) and when offered to set me up at gannett , almost saying it as an afterthought ( which it may have well been since he hadnt been involved in my life in any real way since i was nine and he had stopped coming home on the weekends ) , i accepted readily enough .