http://nextraterrestrial.com/pdf/Bud%20Rat-3.htm

 

 

The draft reading as follows:

 

Gentlemen and Gentle ladies

 

A quick reminder.

 

When I first met Dan Weinstein co-managing director of the Wetherly Capital Group back in our summer of 2001 when he joined Vicky Schiff and me for dessert at Medici, an Italian restaurant just a few doors down from Roger Hedgecock’s former restaurant on 5th Avenue in downtown San Diego Mr. Weinstein had just left a meeting of the California Coastal Commission and altho looking rather tired seemed to perk up once he got settled across the table from me with Vicky Schiff separating the 2 of us guiding me ever so gently with little taps on my feet which I first thought were intended to simply keep me awake, g-d forbid I were to die of boredom listening to Mr. Dan Weinstein go on and on and on about the troubles he faced as a parent his teenage daughter wanting to pierce her belly button but I eventually figured out that she was as shocked as me from Mr. Weinstein’s revelations for some reason thinking I may have fallen asleep since Ms. Schiff is well that by 3PM if I don’t get in at least a couple of hours sleep after lunch the space between my ears turns into a perfect vacuum much like Deep Space, hence the phrase “spacing out.”

 

Unbeknown to Ms. Schiff not only had I got in 3 hours sleep that afternoon I had also exercised close to 3 hours although not everyone would agree riding a waveski in the surf is all that strenuous then again until u have ridden a surf ski even in the relatively calm waters of southern California where the surf has been known to reach higher than 6 feet even in the summer u would begin to appreciate how very much on top of my game I was that evening even if I appeared slouched at the table knowing that I would be meeting someone who sits on the board of an organization just about everyone person living in California has heard of, the California Coastal Commission without a doubt to those of us in the know the most important unaccountable organization in the world other than possibly the DeBeers Diamond Cartel.

 

Not only was I careful in my choice of main course I barely touched the one glass of excellent wine that I nursed ever so slowly so much so that by the time Dan Weinstein showed up I was fully awake invigorated at the prospect getting back to work to join Dan Weinstein’s Wetherly Capital Group by simply keeping my big mouth shut leaving it up to Ms. Vicky Schiff who had a pretty excellent idea of my talents in helping out folks “in distress”.

 

Those like Mr. Krinsk have today a better sense than most of why it would not be all that surprising that Dan Weinstein saw me as nothing more than kitchen wallpaper so incredibly full of himself was Dan as I allowed him to take center stage providing him as much rope as he needed to hang himself, spilling his guts as if seeking absolution, at one point the thought crossed my mind that he, a Reform Jew, was seeking relief of his lifetime burdens from me an Orthodox Jew but then again Dan Weinstein may have been more interested in just being nothing more than friendly to a midget-sized ugly-duckling with nincompoop eyes that could go from being real small to bulging out of my head, agree?

 

More likely tho, my calm demeanor to mention little of my decision to actually wear a fukukta suit allowed Mr. Weinstein to focus primarily on making Ms. Schiff whose father was Jewish but raised Catholic comfortable in knowing that she was now a player in the big league, agree?

 

Vicky Schiff’s lifetime goal of making a couple of hundred million dollars in the space of a couple of years, three at the most, with each tick of the clock was becoming a reality, agree?