For LL in the UK
Among the many business interest that I have LL, you probably spotted oil. Rick a friend and old buddy of mine who hails from and lives in Texas have 50% each of a fracking company. At present it is largely involved in the West Permian Basin in Texas, but we also have an interest in a field in Pennsylvania.
I guess you are not up on that particular market so I'll spell out a few basic facts for you. We can produce a barrel of oil from fracking depending on the 'well' for between $20 and $30. Brent Crude is currently around $66 a barrel wholesale. WE have quite a few wells that are all producing. In fact the only bottleneck in the operation, and that applies to others as well is piping it out. Pipeline capacity is almost at maximum. However new pipelines are being built, so that will solved soon.
The reason I have set out the above is to just give you an example of one activity I, or rather one company in the group. I really don't need the money, but I love the buzz I get with such business activity as you may recall.
You have Brexit over there. I have been keeping up with all the machinations as I have interests in the UK and the EU and Europe. To that end we moved one critical company out of the UK to Frankfurt, Germany. I need to be able to conduct business on both side of the English Channel.
But enough of business. I often wonder how things are for you over there. No longer in a caring way, just curiosity. I am aware your small family has shrunk even further in recent years. Sad but in the scheme of things, inevitable.
Then there is your routine and it is a routine, one which is rather repetitive. Sprinkled with the same or similar weekends, soccer and mostly the same old vacations. I would find that boring, something you once told me that you 'don't do'. Seem that in fact ...you do. Quite boring, it seems after all.
How have the last nearly fourteen years been for you I wonder? Not like the last fourteen years have been for me, of that I am sure. I'm not going to 'bore you' with my wealth (that you could have once shared) or my homes, cars, boats and plane. No. I will just point out that I have had no worries, a happy marriage to Ash, acquired a large family, including mine which has expanded, and throughout it all I have been very happy. The exception of course was the sudden loss of Ash.
We had an agreement. If either of us died the survivor was to find another partner if they were so inclined. I have decided I won't marry again for a third time. Despite all that I have a lovely life, many many friends of which the preponderance are female (about 2/3rds to 1/3rd ratio - women to men). I can follow the sun if I wish and enjoy my beautiful homes, which incidentally are never empty.
I am guessing, and know through contacts I still have in your area, that you don't have quite the freedom that I do. You might have had, but as with the rest of your life, you made poor choices, wrong choices and ill informed ones.
The man you have spent the last thirteen plus years with, is undoubtedly of your social class, but I have always thought that those that subscribe to be working class are the ones that uphold the idea, by the chip many carry on their shoulders. You are one LL. Class has nothing to do with anything. You can achieve anything you wish if you put your mind to it, and you are not without one of those.
It is all in the application, turning dreams and ambitions into reality and it can be done with drive and commitment. The latter is the one thing you lacked when it came to 'us'. It wasn't me that suffered, even though I sought to convey that impression, it was you and you didn't realize it. You were and are the loser. I don't think you ever had much ambition LL, hence you life remained humdrum in the extreme. You don't have that sort of energy either, whereas I do in spades. I am still achieving even now and I really don't need to do it.
I am enjoying great weather here as I always do through winter and into spring. We have the odd overcast days and cooler ones especially at night in January and February, but I can still step out in shorts and a polo shirt in the daytime and feel this lovely Florida sun on me. I know the UK labors under gray skies, wind and rain ....and snow and that is what you chose when we parted. As you said yourself, you made the wrong decision and realized it a bit too late.
Life moves on as you once said after we had parted. It moved on for me before we parted due to your dishonesty. yet, up to March 2005 I would have still had you in my life. I knew why you wouldn't commit of course and it wasn't about your so called 'freedom' it was about your sexual activity outside of our relationship. Sad that you exchanged a life of luxury and security with someone who once loved you, for the fleeting pleasures of the bedroom.
Maybe there is such a thing as class after all and I know where to place you in the system.
Ciao
