Sunday, January 18, 2010: Finally! I can breathe a sigh of relief today. I am finally healthy after being sick for the last few days. I was feeling run down for a little while. Suffice it to say, it has been a busy week. I spent over 5-hours on Instant Messenger with Adriana Coronel Tenorio (AKA Adriana Howitt Coronel, Ari Coronel, Ari Coronel Tenorio, Ari Howitt, Ari Howitt Coronel) today. I am not kidding. 5+ hours! I don’t get in very many words. Adriana dominates the conversation, which is fine with me. I can see how you are doing and if I am lucky enough she will put you on webcam. Today she was in her “office” and you were home sick. Allegedly.
It’s interesting that Adriana can talk about everything in the same conversation and it all makes sense, to her. I cannot tell if she is sincere about trying to find a resolution to this situation or playing that card because she needs money. If you are me, you have to entertain the dialogue whether I want to or not. Especially when she finds out all that time and money wasted on that appeal she started will have gone for nothing.
We have learned a long time ago that what Adriana says and what she does are two different things 99.9% of the time. Her telling me she wants to find a resolution to this then in the same breath appealing a court decision. Because using my full name with middle name included on court documents and in those same documents using my first and last name with only my middle initial included. She appealed that court decision claiming that those two “Brian’s” were not the same person. That is the kind of representation you get when you hire a dime store attorney like Oscar Ivan Diaz Gomez.
Now that I know what Adriana is really capable of doing when she puts her mind to it. She would be capable of doing it again. Make no mistake, she WILL do it again if she actually thinks she has done nothing wrong in the first place. She tried to get me to tell her what our legal response was to her appeal. I tried to be delicate about letting her know how incompetent her lawyer really is. After all he’s helping us more than he is helping her. Adriana swears by the guy. So be it.
That leads me to the latest. Adriana was talking openly about her prostitution business and how she has to shut it down. She made mention that she is aware it is illegal in the United States to do what she is doing. Never mind she exposed Samantha to it. As she was telling me this, she was showing me the new enhancements to her prostitution business website. She has this stamp on that lets people know she has reviews on a site that reviews prostitutes and that people could read these reviews! Not only that, she told me about her competition and listed their sites in Instant Messenger. Now sure what showing me the enhancements to the website and her shutting down the business have to do with one another. You cannot make this stuff up.
On the other hand, I am still working hard on the business end to help put all this together. While the recession feels like it has been getting better. From a business owner’s point of view it seems like the end is still far away. That is what makes this so agonizing. I have had to fight, scratch and claw for everything little crumb of good news and good fortune here. It’s paying off Sam, it’s paying off. I LOVE YOU SAM!