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Greetings from Amsterdam,
I know its been two months since the last update. So this is long overdue. But then again I haven't heard one peep out of 75% of you on this email list, so sorry to say, this will be your last Update. All of the dead beats are getting dropped. YOU KNOW WHO I AM TALKING ABOUT! Oh, and don't bother emailing me with a bunch of excuses, you're getting dropped and that's that. (Maybe I kidding....maybe I'm not....) Well let's get everyone caught up........ This is going to be a long one, so get comfortable....the last two months has involved a lot of travelling. I've been to Switzerland, sailing in the North Sea, London (twice, as per usual), Monaco, New York (twice, for two weddings, also no surprise), and Spain. I'll recap a few of my journeys for everyone..... I'd like to start with my trip to London. I went to my first real Cricket match, England vs. Pakistan. Unfortunately I went with clients that knew much more than I did about the sport. The traders of Axia Energy easily took me for ?300. A word of advice for my American friends, do not bet on English sports that you don't know anything about. You would have figured that I had known that. Sometimes my stupidity even surprises me.....Okay Axia, you got me this time, we'll see what happens this weekend at the American Football match in Amsterdam...! The following weekend I was off to the French Riviera and the Monaco Grand Prix.....intense sporting event. Mind numbingly loud, beautiful weather, and a great night in the casino. Although, it's official, my French sucks. Six years of French in school and I barely know how to ask for a glass of water. I'm not happy about that. Oh! Speaking of languages, I have enrolled in formal Dutch lessons with a few guys from the desk. Classes begin in September, twice a week, two hours a night for two months. I can't wait for the Update after the final. Yes, there is a final. Any way, let's continue..... My next weekend brought back home to New York City and Bob and Stephanie's wedding. Congratulations you two, I think you should be back from your honeymoon by now? Anyway beautiful event, very happy I was asked to be a part of it. Great to see a lot of old friends. And....as promised, I did not have to find a hidden place to take a nap. Dave and Felice, I still feel bad about that. While on the wedding thing.....last weekend I returned home for 38 hours to attend Deirdra and Penn's wedding. Surprisingly enough I stayed awake for this one too! In all fairness, it was easy, it was a day wedding. Which was very helpful. Anyway those two are in the Caribbean having a blast I'm sure. Not me, it's 7:15pm and I'm in my office writing this stupid e-mail. I think I'm going to set up a cot behind my desk...? I have to mention a little trip I took in between weddings.....a bunch of the Prebon's European managers had an off-site meeting in the South of Spain (Malaga to be exact). It was suppose to be in Barcelona, but that's a whole different story. I think I'll leave that part of the story out. Anyway.....I have learned a few things about travelling lately, especially about air travel. We all know I fly a lot, I mean a lot. I have a new rule, avoid crappy airlines like the plague. It's just not worth it. Airlines to avoid while in Europe....Basic Air (with that name alone, I should have known better), Luxair, actually I can take that one step further, avoid Luxembourg airport and any flight that flies there. I'll elaborate....why wouldn't I?....First of all I take KLM to Luxembourg, no problems there and I have to transfer to a Luxair flight that will be taking me to Malaga. Well after waiting on line with a bunch of old rude people we pile into a bus. We wait in the hot sweaty bus for 15 minutes, finally the bus leaves. I kid you not, we the bus ride was 30 feet long. I was in shock. Don't worry it gets worse.....I squeeze into my seat, I think there was nine inches (22.5 centimeters) of leg room. Every single seat is occupied. Miraculously I fall asleep....but not for long. The flight attendant wakes me up from a dead sleep in order to serve me my "meal", I'm using that term loosely. So now I'm awake (which I'm not happy about) and I have the scariest pate in front of me I've ever seen. It looked so bad I had to try it. For the first time in my life I almost had to employ the air sickness bag. It was horrible. I do have to mention, there was one good thing....after the "meal", they did serve complimentary cognac, which was nice. Quick frankly, I felt they owed to me, but I was thankful none the less. There is something else that bothered me, but it nothing to do with Luxair.... Now that I have almost been poisoned, I knew that there was no chance for me to fall back asleep. So I start reading the book I brought with me, "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe. Well in the end I found the book entertaining, but I have one major problem with it. I'm reading about this guy Lawrence Kramer who is on his way to the court house in the Bronx (he's an Assistant District Attorney) and Tom Wolfe has this guy getting on the D train at 81st street and Central Park West. Duh! Everybody knows that on the upper west side the D train and the A train are both express from 59th Street to 125th Street. The only west side local train that stops at 81st Street and the Bronx Courthouse (161st Street) is the B train and sometimes the C train. I know I'm being a little petty, but give me a break, the author "claims" to reside in New York City (I read the back cover), get your facts straight pal. Tomorrow I'm off the European World Bowl (American Football) with 25 clients. I have a feeling my high school team could beat either team, but it should be fun none the less....we'll see. I would like to welcome the following people into the world....Vanessa Malhame, Joel Kabel and Melissa Moore (my new niece) who was just born on Wednesday night! That's it, until next time......Enjoy your summer, -Douglas Pursel Moore ********************************************************************** This email is intended only for the addressee. This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the named addressee or the person responsible for delivering the message to the named addressee, please contact postmasters@prebon.co.uk This email has been scanned by MIMEsweeper. Visit the Prebon Marshall Yamane web site at http://www.prebon.com **********************************************************************
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