[BrightFuture]

OK, I won the silence contest, LOL. Received an e-mail from H today. He started with asking “how is everything?” I went through his older e-mails and he never asked that before. Then he asked if the taxes were ready for his signature. Duh, I told him when I saw him last time and he even said that he would need to make a trip to the city to sign the tax return. Why is he asking again?

Then he is asking me to cut him a paycheck from the company. Wow, he waited until now for this. We normally do payroll on the 15th of the month. He is lucky that I didn’t send the tax report to state that there was no payroll this quarter. So, he wants a paycheck to help to sustain him until the time when he needs to go to work again.

Then he lets me know that he transferred money to my account (for the condo mortgage.) He calls it “your account”, different from last time when he called it “joint account”. Well, it was in the voice mail, this time he had time to think about how to call it, hehe.

Then he tells me that if I need a paycheck for me (because I told him that I would need a paycheck in order to renew my fast lane pass for border crossing, which is expiring in a couple of months), then I can do the payroll to me and then deposit it into his account. I guess he remembered what I told him about my fast lane pass after all. He then says that “If we need to talk about it, just give me a shout.” “Hope all is well”.

So, I need some advice here. It looks like he was either hesitant to contact me until now, or he was waiting for me to contact him. Or, another thing he might have been busy going back into some replay activities. I’m pretty sure though that he spent some time with the friends I mentioned earlier. And these are good people, nothing close to his drinking/partying crowd. Well, these people can party too, but it is different. It should not have distracted H from handling his usual business with me though.

My thoughts are (well, you can call them speculation) that the race weekend made some impact on H. If he would have no emotion, he would be doing the business as usual – Paycheck on time, make sure that tax return is signed (he knows there will be some return money.) So, something made him uncomfortable, so he didn’t contact me. Could it be that he was waiting for me to contact him to see if I would have enough interest to resume the communication? Do I need to make a step towards him? Do I need to make an effort to actually call him, or continue with the e-mails?