11 days Pre-Wedding Email

2am - and freaking out that we leave TOMORROW! So much to do, so much to do...
So we're getting married aren't we? In less than a fortnight...oh boy.

So we land in merry old Inklandt Thursday morning, we'll be pottering around Kent and the southeast organizing, etc etc.

We're planning on a joint bachelor-bachelorette bash on Friday 28th (2 days before the wedding so we can spend all day Saturday recovering...) it's going to be held outside near Tenterden in Kent...if you are up to the drive, you and your significant other are more than welcome to come play with us - it is a very open shin dig. Let us know.

We're going to be in England until the evening of June 2nd when we jet off to India/Thailand. We plan on coming back to settle permanently in England some time in August/Sept. We'll definitely call and harass you then if we don't meet up beforehand...

Thanks for the thoughts!

Farewell Email to OSA

Hello fellow cubicle creatures (and those folks that have doors too)...

So on this sunny day, it looks like Timothy and I will be walking out of Odell Simms and Associates for the last time...'Tis rather an odd feeling - and it wasn't until we pulled into the parking lot this morning that it dawned on us that this would be our last time...perhaps some day we will miss sitting on 66 for hours on end...(no?)

"We won't miss half of you half as well as we should miss, and we will miss less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

(Okay, yes, we are dorks - and you're even dorkier for knowing where that came from)...

Farewell, Cheer-i-o, and Tschuess!!

Bachelorette Party Thank You

Greetings girls,
I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for taking the time to come up with such great insight for me to bear in mind for my upcoming half-a-century-or-so of married life. Your thoughts were combined and presented to me in a beautiful colour book this past Saturday by Danielle, Dawn and Angela...and I must say that tears abounded.
You were all very sweet to do that - and *sneaky* as I had no idea all this was going on behind my back - I just don't know who I can trust anymore...!
I am going to sorely miss the good people that fill the office here, thank you for giving me such a personal, thoughtful souvenir to leave with.
Sincerely grateful, Andrea

Invitation to Japan

As Marilyn probably wrote, we plan to go over to Japan around Feb. 1 and stay until March 31. If your timing and pocketbook allow, it would be of course great to have you and Andrea pay us a visit while we're there.
--- see all about our Japan trip at: tnajapan.blogspot.com ---

Letter from Papa B.

Dear Andrea,

I am just getting around to replying to your letter of August 10. Tim is just finishing up in Frankfurt as I write this, and we expect him back here around 3 pm. You are certainly right that we will miss him very much when he goes to the US, but I think everyone is agreed that this move is the right one. We have been lucky to have him back home almost every weekend over the last few months, and we took a couple of nice trips with him over the past year, so we are thankful for that. I am trying not to get so emotional about all this, but I am reminded of the museum we went to in Ireland last March. There was an exhibition about how the older members of families felt so despondent when their children got on the boat to make the long and dangerous trip to America. With telephones and airplanes, the situation is a lot less stressful now than it was in those times.

The main uncertainty is clearly Tim's job-hunting. One of the main reasons I think it is a good idea for Tim to go the US is because I believe he can find a better position there than here in Germany. We hope that he finds something soon, but we also understand that this might not happen. I just hope that he keeps a positive attitude about all this, and doesn't let it affect his relationships to others, particularly to you and your family. He is very dependent on you all, and so I hope that he always acts like a good guest, at the very least.

Tim himself is quite eager to make this trip and to be with you. It should be an exciting time for both of you, so make the most of it. I assume we will be kept well-informed of developments, and we will just plan on this basis. A friend of mine once told me that he found the period when he was without a job quite useful for his future life, because it gave him extra time to think about things. Tim has a lot of people supporting him, and that should continue to give him confidence about the future even when there are great uncertainties about what will happen next.

I hope very much that you and Tim have a happy and successful time ahead of you. Please tell your parents that we appreciate their taking Tim into their home to help get him started in America. We hope to see you all in the not-too-distant future.

With all best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Bob

Last Work-Related Email

Hi Timothy,

Hope everything is going well and that you are enjoying your time without a Storm on your back...
Remember talking about people who were interested in notes (speaker, ppt, or otherwise) from the workshops? Well, here's the short list of those people, with email addresses...so they're in your hands now...

I noticed that you got the keynote presentations up now on the website, and thought you might want to fire off an email to these people to let them know that the info. is there.

Toodles for now,

Andrea

GCoX Invitation - 2002

You are cordially invited to the German Centers of Excellence Executive Breakfast

May 16th, 7:30 - 9:00am at the Fairmont Hotel, San José

Dear Executive,

On behalf of the German Centers of Excellence, a forum for technology innovation and investment in Germany, I would like to extend an invitation to you to attend an exclusive private breakfast to be held at the Fairmont Hotel, in San José on Thursday, May 16th, 2002 between 7:30 and 9:00am. This "Executive Breakfast" will be attended by senior executives from technology companies across Germany and representatives from the 13 largest German cities. The program will include speakers as venerable as Paul Grosse, President and CEO of Deutsche Telekom; Claude Leglise, Vice President of Intel Capital; and Mr. George Shirakawa, the Vice Mayor of San José.

The purpose of the Executive Breakfast is to connect a select number of American executives with their German counterparts in order to share information and introduce opportunities for new business development both in the United States and in Germany. As a prominent member of the corporate leadership of Silicon Valley, the executive members of Germany's top cities have sincerely requested your presence. The Executive Breakfast launches the German Centers of Excellence program at the Fairmont Hotel in San José that includes workshop sessions in the afternoon, followed by an evening reception at the Tech Museum. You are very welcome to attend the workshops and reception, and we encourage you to look into the program on the German Centers website listed below.

We do hope that you will be able to attend this rich event; however, if you are not, we would be happy to extend an invitation to a representative that you may appoint in your place. You can learn more about the conference at our website: http://www.germancenters.com. Please R.S.V.P. as soon as possible to AHampton@OdellSimms.com or call (877) 313-6840. We look forward to hearing back from you and seeing you at the Breakfast.

Sincerely,

Andrea Hampton

German Centers of Excellence

Tel: (877)313-6840

Email: AHampton@OdellSimms.com