The cancellation of Howard’s trips to New York, Montreal are such a relief to me. I do feel a little bad for disappointing the fans in those locations who were hoping to meet with him, but not bad enough for me to want him to go.
My brain has been so full of thoughts these past couple of days. I even had trouble sleeping last night because my thoughts were running around so fast they chased sleep away. Funny thing is I don’t feel all that tired today. I think I may be running on adrenaline or something. At some point I’m going to crash hard. Hopefully it will be tonight at bedtime.
Edit 6/15/2006: When we cancelled these trips we knew it was because Howard was leaving Novell. We were upset, happy, frightened, relieved, and terrified all in turns. We couldn’t announce his departure on the internet before telling co-workers, so we spent the next 3 days carefully not chronicling any of what we went through. It is sad because now I wish I had a record of it.
Hopefully you got lots of sleep 🙂 And that there will be less buffer stress in the House of Tayler.
Glad to hear Howard will be home more. When reading his Barcelona postings, I found myself thinking “They flew him all this way to give one presentation, ouch $$$”.
*hugs*
I was amazed to see Howard’s Open Letter suggesting that his trip cancellations were A Bad Thing. I kept thinking “But you’ll be home with Sandra and the kids! How is that bad? Were they cancelled because you were laid off? What’s wrong?”
It hadn’t even occurred to me that it was bad for The Fans.
Well, The Fans will just have to deal. Howard’s got The Family.
The Open Letter is primarily to the fans. As such the trip cancellations had to be pitched as bad news.
For us it was good news. We did a little happy dance when we found out for sure.
I ought to note that this LJ entry was a direct result of the finalization of Howard’s decision to leave Novell.