SkinsRaj28 said:
Patrick, hopefully you can make it out next year as well. You're in TB too though, right?
Yeah sort of, my house is in Tampa, I guess you would say that is my permanent residence. I came up to Biloxi mostly to start a small business with my partner, was going to be here 2 months max according to the plan. Then the storm (Katrina) came. Not only did my partner lose everything he's ever owned, some of the companies we had lined up to do business with no longer exist, they got wiped off the face of the earth as well. Most are coming back, or already have but we had to almost start all over again, had too much invested to walk away. Felt like it a few times though. He was going to run things here, I was just here to help get it started and settle the people in that we brought in. I would feel like a dick leaving him now, he's still got no house to live in or anything else, he and his family are living in a FEMA trailer. They are working on rebuilding as fast as he can and I know it's not his fault, but man this sucks being up here this long. Came August 2005 for my 2 months, it's now almost September 2006 and am not even close to being done.
Anyway don't want to talk your ear off but I go back and forth, mostly here though right now. When/if you and your brother make the Tampa trip you are talking about I will make sure I am in town so we can all hook up. There are some new arrivals in the Tampa area I have not met either. Just keep me posted, your pictures remind me so much of one of my best friends, I bet you are like him in attitude as well. LOL, I hope so, crazy SOB I played football with. Talk to you later man.