Hey, Ken.  We are in sad shape, aren't we?  I was on vacation last week, through Monday.  Not a good feeling coming back to a sub $20 stock price and an SEC inquiry.  It never really seemed possible to me that Enron would be here.  Other than concerns for my future, everything is going fine.  Things really are ok, I know I can get a job with AEP if I need to.  I actually started talking to them about it.  But on Wednesday, they made a few changes that I'm not so sure about.  Ed Gottlob (recently made VP) was put over the origination desk.  (I heard that they weren't too pleased with Ducoti and Bilberry.)  With that move, they needed someone else to run the trading desk.  That person is our fast-talking friend, Carey Metz.  That blew me away.  I believe their thought was that he would be the best to manage the financial risk.  Apparently he's made a ton of money since he's been in Columbus.  He's also going to stay in Columbus with this responsibility.  So, this may be the first move to bring the group up north with the rest of the family.

The home-life is going well.  We have 3 year-old soccer every Sat.  My lovely wife signed me up to be the coach.  I'm going to get her for that one.  It is fun, though.  Those kids are funny.  They don't care where the ball goes, they just keep kicking (even through the woods).  Looking forward to Halloween.  Cole is going to be a policeman, Jake is going to be a jailbird/prisoner.  Cole has already handcuffed Jake a number of times, he loves it.  My vacation last week was very good.  It was the first extended vacation that I have taken where we didn't have traveling and entertainment stuff planned.  It was one of the best vacations I have had.  We spent 2 days in San Antonio doing the zoo and easy stuff like that.  The rest of the week, we did things around here (like Children's Museum).

Big game coming up this weekend.  Do you think your Huskers can pull it off?  I think OU's going to win it, but it should be a great game.

How about the 6,7, or 8th for lunch?  Later.

D
 -----Original Message-----
From: 	"buylow" <buylow@houston.rr.com>@ENRON  
Sent:	Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:51 PM
To:	Farmer, Daren J.
Subject:	From the Retiree peanut Gallery


Oh my!!!!
 
How those chickens come home to  roost.
 
I hope you are doing OK. Fine  here.
 
We must do lunch  soon.......................
 
Ken