Connections/Hookups

Do you know at least one person that seems to know everyone or knows where to get anything? Or are you that person that has the connections to anything and anyone?

I had an incident today that made me think about this a bit more. I enjoy being that guy. I like being the guy people talk to when they are looking for something or someone. I may not know celebrities or have a hookup to illegal goods or substances but I do have connections.

If its not something I can do myself, I know someone that can or I know where to find what they are looking for. I don't anything out of these connections/hookups but its nice being able to help other people. At times, both sides of the connection benefit from my hookup.

Often my connection may be through a couple other people but I can still produce results. I love seeing the look on people's faces when they are shocked that I know someone in that field or I know someone that lives there, etc etc.
The fact I have moved in many different places and made friends (real friends, not MySpace random people friends) all over the country certainly helps. Now that I'm getting older, all those friends I've made are working in all types of industries and my connections are only getting stronger.

With my knowledge of how connections can be beneficial I feel I should do something with these powers. First thing I'm going to do is put together a nation wide event for fun. After that I'll think about building a website.

Need a change

Do you ever feel your life needs a drastic change? I often get to a point in my life where it seems boring, slow, and the same thing over and over again.

On average, I move every two years to feed this craving of change. I've been back in the Boston area for over two years now and I don't want to move; although the legal system is beating me with a stick to move out of the state. I also don't want to leave my job because of the market right now.

Lately I sold my reliable, good in the snow, low mileage Subaru for a big, gas guzzling, slow Land Rover Discovery and a non-reliable, Mazda RX-7 project car. I'm assuming this was my drastic change that I needed.

I'm not at this point in my life right now where I feel I need a drastic change but this seems to be a common theme in my life story. If you're reading this, what do you do to fill this void?

Public Apology to Jordan's Furniture in Natick, MA

This is a public apology to Jordan's Furniture in Natick, MA relating to the events in their parking lot on the night of Wed, October 15th, 2008.

We had one of the best, if not the best, car meet of the year. The last time we were there, we had 150 cars and it was a great night without any incidences.

This last meet we had around 300 cars and probably 325 people there before 9pm.

I had only 145 cars signed up across the forums I posted on. My guess was 200 cars by 8:30pm (which was fairly accurate) which would fill the bottom lot that I asked to use. More cars kept showing up after the bottom lot was full. This was not expected and neither you or I wanted this to happen. At the time, I was not sure what to do but try to keep people away from the front door. I stepped away from the entrance for a bit and received a call from someone letting me know your management was driving around. I was then told we could use more of the lot as long as we were as far as possible from the door. I began asking people to move farther from the front door but only some listened to my requests ... this was the beginning of the end.

Due to the immaturity of a few, we were asked to leave by the police around 9:30pm. A couple of the patrons at the show that were not invited by myself through the forums I posted on were being disrespectful and endangering the others that were there. I specifically asked people not to do burnouts, donuts, and to leave and enter the lot quietly. In general, I asked that no one do anything that will get us kicked out. They did not follow the guidelines that we had posted ahead of time, therefore ruining the night for everyone else. Some of the people drove up to an hour and a half just to find the cars leaving the lot.

A number of the people that witnessed what happened have contacted the Natick Police with video, pictures, and information about the people that were acting inappropriate. I assure you they will not go unpunished in some way or another. We would like to have meets in the future and do not want people like this anywhere near the parking lot.

I'm not even going to embarrass myself by asking if we can have another meet there. I would have to be out of my mind to expect you to allow something like this ever again.

Below you will find people that are signing this apology and their comments.

We thank you for your time, space, and patience.




To those of you that were there:
Please leave your screen name and forum URL along with your comment(s)


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