, maybe build a cabin, as a sort of therapy to get away from the pressures of being governor and to reflect. Did you end up building a cabin?Actually, I built a lot more than the cabin. I added on to our house in Anchorage, I added on 1,000 square feet on our commercial building in Valdez. And I did build a cabin. I call it construction therapy. I am a carpenter, my passion. And so I thoroughly enjoyed I didn’t need 21 votes in the House or 11 in the Senate to do what I was doing.
There’s a vetting process we do through the Judicial Council, vet folks and send names on to the governor. So by the time it would get to me — I appointed 27 judges — so by the time they would get to me, I knew that they were qualified, etc, and passed all the different hoops to get there.
I mean, Speaker Chenault and I did not get along. We were each having press conferences about each other, press statements about each other. And so I joined his bowling team in the legislative bowling league. And he was a little surprised to see me the first night I was there. We became pretty good friends. He’s a great bowler, phenomenal bowler. I’m not. And he’s from Nikiski, where they had a bowling alley, and Kenai. Valdez didn’t have a bowling alley.