Post by Nacho on Jul 5, 2005 17:14:53 GMT 1
Hi there, my friends.
You may think that I was lost somewhere down here in the hot Spain. Well, you are right.
First thing that I want to say is sorry for all this time that I have been missing and quiet. My life has changed so much in a few weeks that I even don't know if I still can handle anymore all the things that I used to handle and all the plans that I had.
Please let me explain:
The biggest and nicest change in my life is related to Elena, my wife, and me. She is pregnant and we will be father and mother of a little new biker next December.
Those wonderful news are the reason why she is not coming this year to the International Meeting. We had everything ready and planned to join the meeting together, but now she does not ride with me in the bike any more. We don't want to take any unnecessary risk (for both, her and the baby).
So, we decided together that I could attend the meeting by myself only if she feels all right during the pregnancy period. After four months of pregnancy, she feels all right and everything seems to point that I can travel next week, although the decision is not taken yet (and won't be probably taken till this weekend).
So, right now I still don't know if I will see you guys in a few days. I hope I will, but I still don't know.
The second thing that has been happening around my life during the last weeks are two illnesses. Both my father and Elena's father have cancer and they have been in hospital several times during the last three months. Thanks God, right now they are OK and doctors said that they both have beat the cancer. The process is not over yet and they still have to go to hospital to make a lot of tests and different treatments. But the good news is that they both are now free from cancer and they will live many more years. Just a couple of weeks ago we thought that they were gonna die, but now life is beautiful here again and we are very very happy.
Third thing that changed my life is related to my work. Some of you may know something about my job and the company but I would like to explain my new situation.
I am now 32 years old and since I was only 19, I have been working in a group of four companies which belong to my family and related to Publishing. Two of those companies publish books for children to use in schools and I used to manage both of them till two weeks ago. They were easy to manage and I took them to excellent economical situation during the last years.
The other two companies are related to the world of communication, marketing, multimedia, web sites and all kind of software and programs that we can make and produce for customers under their demand. My father, being only 55, used to be the person in charge of those two companies. Now, because of his illness and because of many new projects that we have in the companies that my father can't handle, I am going to be the person in charge for those two companies now.
That means that if my life was already difficult managing two companies, now I have to manage four of them and take my father's position so he can rest and retire to enjoy his life.
This new position have taken me to different place in the same building from the one where I used to be seated. Now I work in a big room with around 15 or 16 people and I am their boss. Therefore, I don't have much time left to surf the net for personal things like bikes and Venture Clubs like I used to do. Also, I want to give example to all of them and teach them that personal things have to be done out of work or after working time. It's OK if they use chats, download movies from the Internet or those kinds of things, but not during the working time as they have been doing since some time ago. I want to be a good boss, but they have to know that some things are not allowed any more. And as you can understand, I can't tell them to stop doing that if I'm the first one who does it. So, right now, no Venture clubs and forum reading during working time.
To complete this new hard situation full of things, my house is a mess right now because of some works we are making to make it bigger and nicer. All our furniture is covered with plastic bags and blankets and we are adding new rooms to the house. Also we are making a new place for the cars and the bike as we didn't have parking place. This means that Elena is angry and mad all the time because the house is dirty and we can't do normal life in it. The garden is also getting ugly because of all the works outside.
These works and the need of a new car that I didn't expect, are making that my financial situation is getting a little bit tighten. We needed to go to the bank and ask for some money for all the projects (house, car, garage, ...). My trip to France is in danger also because of this same reason, although I'm trying to do everything is in my hands to attend the meeting.
So, please forgive me for my long silence but I have been quite busy lately. I hope you understand my new situation and all the changes in my life.
Finally, I want to thank all the effort you guys are doing to make this forum bigger, nicer and better. There have been many changes since I don't read it regularly and all of them are great. I try to read all the posts of the forum, but sometimes I do it so quickly that I miss a lot of things. But my opinion is that this is going better and better and I hope that I can keep helping. I feel about this club like a big family and I hope it keeps growing. And if I can make to France, I will defend it during the President's Meeting.
Anyway. I think this message is long enough. Those who travel these days to France, please take care and get there safely. We want to have fun altogether.
Best regards to all from Spain,
Nacho.
You may think that I was lost somewhere down here in the hot Spain. Well, you are right.
First thing that I want to say is sorry for all this time that I have been missing and quiet. My life has changed so much in a few weeks that I even don't know if I still can handle anymore all the things that I used to handle and all the plans that I had.
Please let me explain:
The biggest and nicest change in my life is related to Elena, my wife, and me. She is pregnant and we will be father and mother of a little new biker next December.
Those wonderful news are the reason why she is not coming this year to the International Meeting. We had everything ready and planned to join the meeting together, but now she does not ride with me in the bike any more. We don't want to take any unnecessary risk (for both, her and the baby).
So, we decided together that I could attend the meeting by myself only if she feels all right during the pregnancy period. After four months of pregnancy, she feels all right and everything seems to point that I can travel next week, although the decision is not taken yet (and won't be probably taken till this weekend).
So, right now I still don't know if I will see you guys in a few days. I hope I will, but I still don't know.
The second thing that has been happening around my life during the last weeks are two illnesses. Both my father and Elena's father have cancer and they have been in hospital several times during the last three months. Thanks God, right now they are OK and doctors said that they both have beat the cancer. The process is not over yet and they still have to go to hospital to make a lot of tests and different treatments. But the good news is that they both are now free from cancer and they will live many more years. Just a couple of weeks ago we thought that they were gonna die, but now life is beautiful here again and we are very very happy.
Third thing that changed my life is related to my work. Some of you may know something about my job and the company but I would like to explain my new situation.
I am now 32 years old and since I was only 19, I have been working in a group of four companies which belong to my family and related to Publishing. Two of those companies publish books for children to use in schools and I used to manage both of them till two weeks ago. They were easy to manage and I took them to excellent economical situation during the last years.
The other two companies are related to the world of communication, marketing, multimedia, web sites and all kind of software and programs that we can make and produce for customers under their demand. My father, being only 55, used to be the person in charge of those two companies. Now, because of his illness and because of many new projects that we have in the companies that my father can't handle, I am going to be the person in charge for those two companies now.
That means that if my life was already difficult managing two companies, now I have to manage four of them and take my father's position so he can rest and retire to enjoy his life.
This new position have taken me to different place in the same building from the one where I used to be seated. Now I work in a big room with around 15 or 16 people and I am their boss. Therefore, I don't have much time left to surf the net for personal things like bikes and Venture Clubs like I used to do. Also, I want to give example to all of them and teach them that personal things have to be done out of work or after working time. It's OK if they use chats, download movies from the Internet or those kinds of things, but not during the working time as they have been doing since some time ago. I want to be a good boss, but they have to know that some things are not allowed any more. And as you can understand, I can't tell them to stop doing that if I'm the first one who does it. So, right now, no Venture clubs and forum reading during working time.
To complete this new hard situation full of things, my house is a mess right now because of some works we are making to make it bigger and nicer. All our furniture is covered with plastic bags and blankets and we are adding new rooms to the house. Also we are making a new place for the cars and the bike as we didn't have parking place. This means that Elena is angry and mad all the time because the house is dirty and we can't do normal life in it. The garden is also getting ugly because of all the works outside.
These works and the need of a new car that I didn't expect, are making that my financial situation is getting a little bit tighten. We needed to go to the bank and ask for some money for all the projects (house, car, garage, ...). My trip to France is in danger also because of this same reason, although I'm trying to do everything is in my hands to attend the meeting.
So, please forgive me for my long silence but I have been quite busy lately. I hope you understand my new situation and all the changes in my life.
Finally, I want to thank all the effort you guys are doing to make this forum bigger, nicer and better. There have been many changes since I don't read it regularly and all of them are great. I try to read all the posts of the forum, but sometimes I do it so quickly that I miss a lot of things. But my opinion is that this is going better and better and I hope that I can keep helping. I feel about this club like a big family and I hope it keeps growing. And if I can make to France, I will defend it during the President's Meeting.
Anyway. I think this message is long enough. Those who travel these days to France, please take care and get there safely. We want to have fun altogether.
Best regards to all from Spain,
Nacho.
