Monday, January 16, 2006
CLINT UPDATE: TIMING
Timing has something to do with all of this. If I’ve ever doubted that, I’m convinced of it now. If all of this were meant to dissipate and fade away into nothing, it would have done so a long time ago. We wouldn’t have Clint’s friends dangling in front of us (who we know have information about his whereabouts) and be very close to some crucial news if something weren’t eventually going to happen. It is all of these little twists and turns, in and of themselves, that make me fully believe this is something substantial.
I was at the shop all day Friday and nothing related to the Clint search happened there all morning long, until the 20 minutes when I left to get Carter lunch. And that is when George showed up selling i-pods. Carter told him to come back in an hour because he believed that his daughter might buy one. However, we sat there the rest of the day and he did not come back. I was there 8 hours that day…and I missed him during that small window of time that I left to run errands. Had I been there, I would have flirted with George…gotten in his favor. Asked him if he had any cute friends…I love southern boys…I’ve spent time in Tennessee…something along those lines…something that might get carried back home to Clint…that he should go down to the shop and check out Carter’s daughter…
But no…I was gone those 20 minutes George was there…
Mike called later in the afternoon and I answered the phone….he wanted to talk to Carter…
There is something else that Carter has that Mike wants….George took a sample of it back to Mike when he was at the shop, and Mike immediately called for the rest of it…he told Carter he would be down to the shop shortly…he had laptops for sale…but we told him we didn’t need laptops…Carter wants gardening tools and he also told Mike that his daughter wanted a dolly so her band could move their gear back and forth between the practice space…
In hindsight, I guess we should have told him that we were interested in seeing the computers…because Mike never showed up that day…
About 3:30, though, Mike sent two guys down to the shop that Carter didn’t really know to pick up what Mike wanted. Carter told them that he has the goods but that Mike needs to come down to get them himself because Carter won’t deal with people he doesn’t know…this is true…but it is also important that we keep all things that we have for Mike until we can actually put them in his hands…it does us no good to pass them off to his friends since Mike is the one that Carter actually needs to talk to about Clint…having things that he wants gives us leverage…
So, there was no news other than these comings and goings. Carter felt bad at the end of the day that there wasn’t more news. And I understand…when these boys say they’ll be there in an hour, sometimes it’s 3 or 4 days later. What is most important is that almost daily, they, themselves, or someone related to them either call the shop or stop by. So, it is really only a matter of time before Mike shows up and Carter is able to sit him down and talk to him about these deals he has for Clint…or even Clint himself decides to stop by the shop because he’s heard Carter had something for him. There is a timing to all of this that we have not quite figured out yet…
I’ll be down at the shop Friday afternoon. Kent and Beth are down there right now…
Updates will follow…
Timing has something to do with all of this. If I’ve ever doubted that, I’m convinced of it now. If all of this were meant to dissipate and fade away into nothing, it would have done so a long time ago. We wouldn’t have Clint’s friends dangling in front of us (who we know have information about his whereabouts) and be very close to some crucial news if something weren’t eventually going to happen. It is all of these little twists and turns, in and of themselves, that make me fully believe this is something substantial.
I was at the shop all day Friday and nothing related to the Clint search happened there all morning long, until the 20 minutes when I left to get Carter lunch. And that is when George showed up selling i-pods. Carter told him to come back in an hour because he believed that his daughter might buy one. However, we sat there the rest of the day and he did not come back. I was there 8 hours that day…and I missed him during that small window of time that I left to run errands. Had I been there, I would have flirted with George…gotten in his favor. Asked him if he had any cute friends…I love southern boys…I’ve spent time in Tennessee…something along those lines…something that might get carried back home to Clint…that he should go down to the shop and check out Carter’s daughter…
But no…I was gone those 20 minutes George was there…
Mike called later in the afternoon and I answered the phone….he wanted to talk to Carter…
There is something else that Carter has that Mike wants….George took a sample of it back to Mike when he was at the shop, and Mike immediately called for the rest of it…he told Carter he would be down to the shop shortly…he had laptops for sale…but we told him we didn’t need laptops…Carter wants gardening tools and he also told Mike that his daughter wanted a dolly so her band could move their gear back and forth between the practice space…
In hindsight, I guess we should have told him that we were interested in seeing the computers…because Mike never showed up that day…
About 3:30, though, Mike sent two guys down to the shop that Carter didn’t really know to pick up what Mike wanted. Carter told them that he has the goods but that Mike needs to come down to get them himself because Carter won’t deal with people he doesn’t know…this is true…but it is also important that we keep all things that we have for Mike until we can actually put them in his hands…it does us no good to pass them off to his friends since Mike is the one that Carter actually needs to talk to about Clint…having things that he wants gives us leverage…
So, there was no news other than these comings and goings. Carter felt bad at the end of the day that there wasn’t more news. And I understand…when these boys say they’ll be there in an hour, sometimes it’s 3 or 4 days later. What is most important is that almost daily, they, themselves, or someone related to them either call the shop or stop by. So, it is really only a matter of time before Mike shows up and Carter is able to sit him down and talk to him about these deals he has for Clint…or even Clint himself decides to stop by the shop because he’s heard Carter had something for him. There is a timing to all of this that we have not quite figured out yet…
I’ll be down at the shop Friday afternoon. Kent and Beth are down there right now…
Updates will follow…
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