Note from Jim Ray: >Hey, you should post your cruise experience on the e-gold list! I think >I'm going to start charging a percentage for taking people along, this is >2 for 2! :^) >JMR A couple of weeks ago I flew down to Florida to visit the folks at E-Gold and specificly to see Jim Ray. I wanted to meet the people running the organisation that I am building a business around. My wife and I flew into Melbourne late thurday night and were greeted with the news that her sister passed away the night before. Needless to say this put a damper on the trip. We started early friday with Jim meeting us at the motel and heading out for breakfast. I learned real quick that Jim LOVES to talk :> Afterwards we headed over to the E-Gold office. Turns out they are about a mile or so from the airport and had passed it on the way to the motel. I received the grand tour and met all the folks. Everyone was great and all the signs of a growing company were present. I have done enough startups to be able to spot the difference between growth and hype. Met with the tech folks for a bit and discussed security and redundency and am confident that they have a good staff. After everyone had arrived we had a meeting to discuss future plans for both myself and E-Gold. I came away from that meeting with a good understanding of what their core business model is and where I should focus my business on. You will see some added services from me over the next couple of months that will help the E-Gold community grow. Now that everyone was feeling warm and fuzzy it was time to go blast some holes in paper. Jim, Jay and myself visited the local firing range. I had brought along several boxes fo .40 cal practice ammo that my wife had purchased by mistake. I have a .45 and could not use it, so it went to a good cause ;> We swapped some techniques and drooled over some of the latest tools in the showcase. All in all a great way to relax. Next stop was to pick up my wife and to check out the local hooters. It was Harley night and since my wife and I are bikers we had to go check out the bikes and have a couple of beers. Hooters girls where great and the parking lot was full. Could not ask for anything beter. Later Jim took my wife and I out to an italian place called the Dove. Nice place and somewhat crowded, but the food was excelent. Jim picked up a couple of nice cigars for us to enjoy on saturday. He had reserved us spots on a ship called the Sterling Casino. We met Jim early and had a quick bite at burger king and hit the road. It takes an hour or so to get to Port Canaveral from Melbourne, this is where the casino ship docks. There were several ships there including the new Disney ship. That thing is HUGE. We have several cruise ships dock outside my office in Seattle, but this one is bigger. Anyway, we became part of the herd that boarded the ship. It is an older ship with 4 floors of casino. Looked pretty similar to most of the casinos I have been in, lots of slots, craps, blackjack etc... >From what I understand gambling is not legal in Florida, so these guys put you on a boat and head out to international waters. Once we were 12 miles out they turn on the casino. I swear it was a race to see who could loose money the fastest. My wife and I like playing slots, we typically will walk around a casino and hit various machines. With so many people packed in there open machines were a premium. We decided to hit the free food and then go out to the stern and enjoy the sunsine. Being from the wet side of Washington sunshine is somewhat of a bonus for us. Unfortunately we looked like two ghosts sitting out there, at least for the first hour or so, then we looked like two lobsters! When there was about 45 minutes left of the gambling action we hit the casino again. By this time most folks had deposited their money in the machines and were now hitting the lounges. We started off with hitting a couple of 50 and 80 dollar wins, later my wife hit one for $360. By the time we were done we had won about $300 over what we had brought. All and all a good day. After the trip back we decided to make a return visit to hooters. They had classic car night going on and having nice looking girls in skimpy outfits bringing me beer seemed like the right thing to do. It was a good finish for a good trip. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
