Unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance
August 22nd, 2008I expect to add to this list as time goes on.
- Andrew called the day after I resigned and told me he had quit and was moving to Shanghai to study Chinese (strange coincidence!).
- My landlord asked to break my lease early, saving me a month’s rent. He also purchased the furniture I wanted to leave behind.
- Manny put me up at his place for most of August while I was homeless.
- Manny gave me the new Nokia phone he got as a “loaner” when his iPhone was stolen.
- Imme hosted me in Freiburg and Meli took me around.
- Stefan gave me his lanyard to carry my flash drive.
- A stranger wrote me out of the blue wanting to buy a domain I wasn’t using. The price he paid covered the cost of all 12 of my other domains three times over.
- The IRS decided to refund over $12,000 of tax I had already paid.
- My sister, brother-in-law, niece, and nephew took care of me for a month over Christmas.
- Andrew helped me find a great apartment the first week I was in Shanghai.