[geeks] Anyone else having a month like mine? <long>

[Chris Byrne]

All,

Well I have had a truly joyous month so far.

At the beginning of the month my wife and I finally fully split.

Fun

Then there was the rape case and my computers being siezed.

Laugh Riot

Then the following friday I head out to Southern Illinois to meet up with a
friend. Just before I leave she calls me to say she cant pick me up at the
airport and I have to make my way to Jacksonville from Chicago on my own. I
get into chicago two hours late on friday night after everything is shutdown
and try and get a flight down to Springfield Il, which is about 30 miles
from Jville. No dice the next flight isnt until the next day. No busses or
trains either. But I can get to St. Louis which is supposedly only 60 miles
from Jville and my friend will pick me up there.

So I get the flight to St Louis, but when I get there jsut as the airport is
about to close I cant get in touch with my friend.

Great fun

So I decide, ok it's 60 miles, I'll jsut get a car service to take me out.
Only 1 problem. It turned out to be 90 miles and cost $180.00

joy

So then I finally get into Jville, and I cant get in touch with my friend.
For three days. It turns out her roomate has been erasing my messages or not
passing them on to her, or just out an out lying to her because he doesnt
like me. He actually told her I had left and didnt want to see her at one
point. I was supposed to be staying with her, but I ended up having to stay
in an overpriced hotel.

Sheer joy

Finally we manage to get together on monday. I'm supposed to leave on
tuesday afternoon.Of course I wake up tuesday morning to scenes of the world
trade center being crashed into. I literally woke up and turned the TV on
jsut as the second plane was crashing into it. What a way to wake up huh.

Now remember I'm a dual citizen living in Ireland. I always travel with
multiple sets of travel documents from different contries. My father is a
known associate of terrorist organizations. I work in the security business
and tend to have lots of questionable things on or about my person.

Utter bliss

So I get to spend the next 8 days in a hotel room in southern illinois with
Aer Lingus not answering their phones. They literally put a message on the
voicemail saying not to call them for a few days. In the meantime I'm still
in a hotel, for a total of 12 nights when I had plannned on staying with a
friend. My credit card is maxed and I'm running out of cash. Plus I still
have to find a way to get back from Jville to Chicago. At least I got to
spend three full days with my friend.
Finally they book me on a flight back to Dublin, but I get a sinus infection
from the airplane, and spend the weekend drugged to the gills with a head
that feels like spikes are being pounded into it. I'm supposed to make a
presentation to my board on monday which I have to put off because Im sick.

Tuesday my mother calls me. She jsut went through another bout with cancer a
few months ago, and she got through it, but she's still beeen sick and they
jsut found out why. She has a tumor growing around her brain stem. They are
not sure if it's operable or not, if it is she may be ok if not she has six
months to live.

Indescribable ecstacy

So last night, still with a sinus infection two members of the board call us
in for a meeting.

My company is a joint venture between an Irish company and an english
company each having 50% stake. The english company just told the irish
company that they are almost bankrupt and are pulling out of the JV. We as a
company are doing quite well, but 50% of our money just got taken away from
us. We are going to have to lay off half our staff, and our planned
expansion is of course put on hold. We were planning to triple the size of
the company we were doing so well.
I'm not sure if I'm going to stay on or not since the future is so
uncertain.

It's been an interesting month lemme tell ya

Chris Byrne