Congratulations, Will!!!!!!!

You'd be a great travel writer, Will...for the 'terror' or 'mayhem' type of travel book. There are not too many who have the stomach for what you consider typical. You and your dad are actually the only people I have known who are so gleeful when discussing hardships. As for Michelle...I think she might be a worthy travel companion. It reminds me of when dad & I went on our first HK trips. Picture us running around the dark streets of Wanchai in the early hrs. of the morning...we used to pretend we were CIA...very fun!

As for Megan's 'secret selling' of Siberia: a practical joke played on a beloved brother...you owe her one I'd say. Megan, what do you have to say for yourself? I told Baga about Will announcing he'd been sent to Siberia by his sister and she thought it was hysterical!!! First time I've heard her laugh in weeks....

From your report it sounds like, once again, we're in the wrong business...is it too late to buy into oil? I had a call from a man last week who was trying to sell me shares of oil wells...reminds me of you, Will, when you came into my office 2 yrs. ago and told me to "buy oil", and I called my friends and asked how I could do it....they were shocked that a widow would consider getting into something so risky...I told them my son had this brainy idea (I couldn't let them think it was my idea or that oil was simple compared to CC machines).

But the good news is: the russian, ukraine, siberian machines are ancient...and there seems to be an absence of safety stickers, so, they need us there....we'll have to do what we do best: updating their industry. Good luck this week...we're proud of you...aren't we McKee's and Harris'?