Gary Halbert · whole document (56)
Goodbye 04-06-05
It seems there are hundreds, perhaps even more than a thousand, web blogs talking about me. I've even come across an entire website that gives information about me.
And it's been during these last few months as I became a "lurker" and began reading some of these blogs and the like, I started learning a great deal about myself. Recently, John Carlton sent me a link to a website with a comment something like, "My God, Gary, what are they going to think of next?"
I clicked on the link to that website and there was a huge headline that said: "If you're wondering why you haven't heard from Gary Halbert lately, it's because he has been sent to prison." It then went on with page after page describing why and how I happened to be in prison.
Another time I was looking at an article someone was preparing to write about me. It told about the time I had an idea at 9:00 in the morning and turned it into a quarter-billion dollars in cash that same day.
You know, perhaps my mind is slowing down and not as sharp as it used to be. It used to be every time I was in prison or every time I made $250,000,000 in three hours, I would remember it. Now apparently I have these experiences and almost immediately forget about them. To tell the truth, I wish to hell I could remember where that 250-mil I made in those few hours is. Maybe I'll come across it in a shoe box in my prison cell.
Speaking of my being in prison, I must admit this is really a pretty nice one. I've got a 62" T.V. all to myself... a couple of boats to take out whenever the weather's nice... and whoever my captors are, they seem content to let me come and go wherever I want and whenever I want... and do whatever it is I want to do.