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

[Fogg, James]

Hey, at least you got all your shit outta the way at once. It could have
dribbled in across a full year.

Very sorry to hear about your mom. My mother fought for 18 years with the
cancer demon.

I just recently survived the blood-letting around my company. If I had been
axed I would have been dead. New house in New Hampshire, old house just
won't sell, don't want to go back to Pennsylvania, no work in PA anyways and
I'm mortgaged out the wazoo with two houses. I can't wait for the economy to
get better.

Is the Irish tiger still roaring? In other words, is there other work there
if you get the axe?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Byrne [mailto:chris at chrisbyrne.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 9:04 AM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [geeks] Anyone else having a month like mine? <long>
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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