Monday will be Jamie’s 38th Birthday

 

I thought this photo of her celebrating yesterday with her friends at her favorite bar (Six Ten Brewing) said more than words could describe.  L-R Karma Hurworth, Carolyn Thompson, Gale Ingham, Kathryn Stapleton, Matt Rusczyk, (assuming his wife Jen is taking the photo), Afton Tasler, Mark Mira, Brittany Mira, Jamie Veronica and Victor Alonso.  They have been going to Six Ten Brewing since it opened, so this was a typical snapshot into her life.

 

I’m sad that Justin Boorstein is missing from this photo and her life.  She never has said why they split.  He was the beer nerd and the reason she developed a taste for craft beers.

 

It’s been a good week.  The new judge in Oklahoma ruled on the motions that had been pending since September of last year and ruled in our favor that the Greater Wynnewood Zoo is the same Garold Wayne Zoo and thus subject to show cause for violating the court’s order to not transfer assets.  It ruled that the Receiver was owed 100k and that we were responsible for paying 30k of that.  The judge said WE didn’t give the zoo proper notice, but that wasn’t our fault.  The previous judge ordered it unexpectedly because she was trying to recuse herself from the case, after Jeff Lowe hired her husband to defend him in it.  My belief is that they know neither Jeff nor Joe is going to pay the receiver and rather than have an officer of the court suffer, they are stiffing us with the 30k so he didn’t lose money.

 

He was an awful receiver.  He was scared to death of gun toting Joe and wouldn’t stay on property to protect the cash flow.  Instead he installed a camera over the cash register and relied on Joe to dutifully do all cash transactions under the camera.  How ineffective was that?

 

Joe posted on Facebook yesterday to tell people to stop looking for him because they never cared about him anyway.  I think it’s a ploy to get sympathy, or he’s fearful of being found.  He’s got to know that Jeff has spilled his guts to the FWS officer and probably other branches of law enforcement.

 

I went to a new eye doctor yesterday.  Dr. Nogales of Tampa Eye Clinic.  That’s where I had RK surgery to restore my vision in 1991.  My reading eyesight has been declining and it had gotten to the point where I could not read my phone and reading my computer was becoming difficult.  My right eye stayed the same at -2.50 but they increased the strength for my left eye from -2.75 to -3.25.  My eyes were dilated the rest of the day, so I don’t know how it’s going yet.

 

Alvarez re roofed the house yesterday but a flash storm leaked through their half finished work and soaked the ceilings inside all but two rooms of this old 1979 shack that I’m living in.  I had noticed water stains in one spot under the solar panels and hadn’t re roofed in the 15 years that Howie had been here, so I scheduled the project, even though I would rather have waited until our dry winter.  I doubt there would have been this much damage if I’d waited (or if Alvarez had been prepared with tarps for rain, since it has been raining every day).

 

The Big Cat Sanctuary Alliance has asked me to speak at their upcoming conference on Hospital Design.  I’m working on a 20 minute video to run in the background of our hospital footage.  It will be something new for a presentation that I’ve never seen anyone do.  I’d love to get the timing down to where I talk to a certain point and then the audio comes up for a bit, then back to talking, so that it breaks up the monotony of talking about how to design and outfit a hospital.

 

Howie and I have been learning Spanish with Rosetta Stone.  At night we both need some time to wind down and often watch TV in separate rooms.  This is something we can do together.  Howie just went up to let Hurley out because Jamie is in Ft. DeSoto for her birthday weekend.

 

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