5 - Volume One: Post-Dublin

When I got back from the trip to Dublin, I showed my little project to lots of people. Many of them wanted to contribute after looking through what I collected in Dublin, so the following entries are from people I work (or worked) with and friends.



Rick, ex-co-worker. This is the security clearance card he received when working with GDLS, a customer of ours with government defence contracts.



The mystery entry! I think this is from Patrick out in Vancouver. He gave me what to put in the journal but then never got around to writing his name.



Wendel!!!! Co-worker and good friend (what's left of him!) This entry was made when we were both out in Vancouver for work. Both this entry and the next one were collected over beers at the Elephant and Castle in the Delta Airport hotel.

George, a co-worker who works out of Texas. He and I worked on some US-Canada ground projects together. He was in Vancouver to meet up with Wendel and I and then all of us were going to go to a meeting with some US Hub folks in the Seattle area. The Seattle meeting never happened.... it was Easter weekend and the line-up at the border was HOURS long. Still in the record books as the most time I have ever spent in a car crossing the border.

George's entry is a card he has had in his wallet for years, the business card of a friend of his who is a Texas Ranger. He was promoted to Captain after solving the Blackthorne murder case. I found this description of the case on a CBS news web site from 2000:

"Ever since Sheila Bellush's body was found on Nov. 7, 1997, her ex-husband had been a suspect in her murder. And from the beginning, Allen Blackthorne maintained his innocence. "I had absolutely nothing to do with this. Period," he told 48 Hours. Two and a half years after Sheila Bellush's death, the murder trial of Allen Blackthorne began in San Antonio, Texas.

The chief witness against Blackthorne was his old golfing buddy, Danny Rocha. In three days of testimony, Rocha fingered Blackthorne as the mastermind and financier of the murder plot.

...Everyone involved in the conspiracy to murder Sheila Bellush - including its mastermind - was now behind bars. Allen Blackthorne will be sentenced to life without parole in November."

Brian and I used to work at UPS together. He and his (now) wife, Anouk, lived in Toronto for a few years, just around a couple of corners from where I was living at the time. (Almost) every time I am in Vancouver, we get together. This was collected while we were out at a martini bar in Tsawassen.

Anouk (the afore-mentioned wife of Brian) who acknowledges that she wrote something very odd.

Same night. This is from my friend, Lisa, also from Tsawassen, who works for the same company as me but in Vancouver. Lisa had "NOTHING!" in her wallet, nothing even in her purse, so she grabbed this little martini menu off of the table, stuck it in her wallet and then took it out as her entry. There will be more Lisa-related entries later in the journal, from when she and I went to New York City together for a long weekend.