Web Designer??

Below you will see a picture of myself and my wonderful daughter Lauren. I tried to input this picture in the profiles section but for some reason it wound up on the front page. I also tried to cut and paste this picture back to the profiles section but the web host instructed me the picture file was too big. As you can see I have a great deal of learning to do in the web design area so I will leave the picture on the front page. Incidentally, this picture was taken before attending the annual father/daughter dance hosted by my daughter's elementary school. Also, as you can see my daughter gets her looks from her mother, thank goodness!!! I will try and post a picture of my son but who knows where that photo will end up, I need some more practice!!

This morning I had a telephone interview for a non-monetary handling position. I will translate this last sentence into English; the position does not include handling cash or other monetary instruments for the company so I wouldn't be automatically excluded based on my current situation (so much for English!). The interview was for a compliance related position and who is better qualified than me on how to instruct a company from safeguarding their assets against any potential problems, it seem like a natural. It is a lengthy process and who knows if they are even interested but I guess it is a start.

Yesterday, I received a phone call, to interview with a competing casino in the area for a high ranking "monetary handling position". The gentleman asked if I could come in today for the interview and I thought they had known about current situation because I think the whole world knows about my current situation (which is certainly not the case) so I said that I could come in today at 1:00 pm. Additionally, I had worked with the Director of Human Resources of this particular casino in Las Vegas and in fact was very good friends with her late husband (I will get to that later) so how could they not know about my situation. I guess the gentleman that telephoned me did not know but someone told him later because he called back about 3 hours later canceling the interview and on the message said he did not know if he would re-schedule the interview so I guess he found out.

I had not spoken to the Director of Human Resources at this casino since the death of her husband. Her husband was a young man he died at the age of 42 to kidney cancer. I was able to see him about 2 weeks prior to his death and was so sad to see how his body had been ravaged by the cancer. He was the first friend that I have known to pass away and it really hurt. I was unable to go to his funeral because my wife and I were in Hawaii celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary. In fact the last time I spoke with his wife was during the funeral arrangements and I told her if she needed anything to let me know but I think I neglected to her the fact that I would not be able to make the funeral. She called me a few days later when my wife and I were in Hawaii and she needed someone to speak at his memorial service because the original person had to back out due to health issues. I was not able to return her call and by the time I got back from Hawaii I didn't have the nerve to call her. In retrospect this was very wrong. I should have called her back and followed up on her message but I didn't. It has bothered me for a long time but I haven't done anything about it until last night. I sent her an email and apologized (too little too late) for my actions.

I worked with her husband in Las Vegas and we got to be very close but he moved out to California about 6 months before I did and we sort of lost touch. We tried in the first year to keep in contact but life seemed to pull each of us in different directions. He was a great person and would do anything for anyone. I was very sad when he passed away and I didn't handle his passing very well. I tried to ignore (much like everything else in my life at the time) his passing but this was very wrong. I am truly sorry for not being there. Incidentally, to provide a time line for those that are interested my friend's passing was before my BIG problems began but I was in the throws of sports betting nightly. My amends list gets longer and longer each day.