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# Travails of a Technology Consultant #4: Geddy Lee
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/travails-4-geddy-lee/
- Published: 2010-03-01T05:01:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-27T20:43:30.000Z
- Description: Reliving a top-ten life moment.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Cartoons, Attempted Humor, Rush, Training, Travails

On November 14, 2000 I stood on line at the [Menlo Park Mall in Edison NJ](https://www.simon.com/mall/?id=113&ref=philsimon.com). (That URL goes to Simon.com. Neat coincidence, no?). I patiently waited on line for a total of about six hours.

Why subject myself to such a wait? Easy. For the singular opportunity to shake the hand of a personal hero of mine, Geddy Lee of Rush. Nearly ten years later, we meet under less formal (and real) circumstances.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/2025/05/geddy_comic1-1.jpg "geddy_comic")