Lost Wages
Posted by TFG on May 28th, 2005
I’m just on the verge of cancelling my little Vegas trip. Business is doing what business does and that’s effing with me. I’ve got a deal on tenterhooks right this minute out in Phoenix that’s chewing up gobs of time, and I’ve gotta go to Chicago to kick off another partnership on Monday. And there’s maybe Austin this next week for a tertiary but potentially lucrative side deal, and definitely LA the week after next (more partnerships (and how I’m growing to loathe that word (but not the concept))).
It’s fast and furious, and I’m no longer a fast and furious guy. I’m a knuckle-dragging plodding ape who gets through things using brute force. Apes aren’t much good at keeping the plates spinning on the sticks…one or two is about the extent of it, and I’ve got #4 ready to go, so I’m already a wee bit overextended. Bottom line: taking four days off for Me-Me-Me fun seems utterly decadent and hedonistic at this moment in time.
The fact that it’s bucketing down rain (with continuing forecasts for bigger buckets) and completely slaying my Memorial Day Weekend business has nothing to do with it. But it ain’t helping. Though I must admit, Charlie Robison says it best, “And the rain on the roof sounds so pretty.”
May 28th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
“taking four days off for Me-Me-Me fun seems utterly decadent and hedonistic at this moment in time. ”
exactly!
May 28th, 2005 at 1:05 pm
NO chance.
You’re committed.
Pulling out now would lead to legal action in which I’m sure I could recover at least $3 million from you.
When I promote The Fat Guy for an event, The Fat Guy better show!!!!
May 28th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
ME? Location or disposition?
May 28th, 2005 at 3:35 pm
I left Glen Rose at 10:00 sat moring and it was comming down hard ,I felt sorry for your campers. Oh Well.
May 28th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
I can’t imagine the level of disappointment if you back out. No fucking way. And the fact that you quoted Charlie Robison makes me want to buy you another five or six beers.
Do not fuck us on this one, TFG.
May 29th, 2005 at 10:12 am
Heresy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You will be there. You will be tired (that’s a given). You will enjoy yourself. You will probably not have to buy a drink the whole time you are there.
See you Thursday.
May 29th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
He’ll be there…if I have to run with him piggy-back all the freakin’ way to Vegas…he’s going to be there…the boy deserves some time away from all the insanity.
Honey…we spoke about this last night…you WILL BE THERE AND YOU’LL HAVE FUN…DAMMIT…FUN I SAY…DAMMIT!!!
May 29th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
What a great wife. I hope I succeed in kicking Glenn in the balls like that often enough. He deserves some fun, too.
May 30th, 2005 at 1:08 am
as a good married man would tell ya….
LISTEN TO YOU WIFE!
beers on me
June 1st, 2005 at 9:44 am
Who is this interloper Otis
June 1st, 2005 at 10:14 am
I hate to say this…but come to Vegas and take a whole day off. Just sit by the pool with yourself. Period. Order a few beers and think of nothing but yourself. Then play some poker and go home a day early and set the plan out for the company.
June 3rd, 2005 at 1:14 pm
Does Fort Worth ever cross your mind?