Things in Order
A big part of dealing with the robbery of divorce for me has just been not caring. Despite the fact I’ve had no place to live or a desire to live, I’ve had these contracts with tech services that I haven’t been able to use. All I cared about was the love. The rest was bullshit.
One was with TiVo. TiVo sent us a box because they wanted GeekBrief.TV on TiVo. Luria didn’t take it because she only took intellectual property … the stuff with real value. She left the crap I’d have to pay to store.
In the last year, as I’ve tried to deal with Beaker (plural wife guy) taking control of the company I built, I gave up trying to deal with the practical little stuff.
I have lots of little accounts charging me money for this or that, and because of the divorce, I don’t have the money to pay them. Getting beyond wanting to end my life, I have to turn those costs off.
Tonight I called TiVo. It’s $13 a month service . It is totally worth it, IF! you have the money and the facility to use it. I don’t. I have no income and live in a borrowed camper.
I’m working on starting something new, but after all I had to pay to fight the divorce, it’s not easy financially.
So when I called TiVo and they told me I’d have to pay $200+ to cancel. I freaked out. It wasn’t like I signed up with some agreement that would give me a TiVo console for free. I just signed up to use it.
I told the customer service guy I loved him, but I cussed out the policy. I got turned over to a supervisor and she waved the stupid fee. That was very important because I don’t plan to continue to be homeless and I want to be a TiVo customer again.
But how much does it suck that a scumbag like Beaker can take a person’s life?
I don’t want anyone to have to go through what I’ve gone through. A Wealthy man saw the value in what I created and he worked to take it from me. That might be okay if it was just business, but he destroyed a marriage. I shouldn’t have to pay for that.
Wow! Who is this Beaker guy? John P? Hang in there Neal this new show is going to rock!
I don’t know you at all. To me you are just a guy who has given me great tech stories and is open and honest on the internet. First off from one human to another human, sorry you are in such pain. It looks like you have found a way to make it through each day, for this I congratulate you. If you would ever like to shoot me an email, just to vent to a stranger, please know I am here. I am a stay at home Dad, age 37 who lives in NC. I do have a masters degree in counseling (don’t you?), if that helps.
I know you like music, I will leave you with one of my FAVORITE tunes, NC own Avett Brothers:
Well I cant understand the crazy divorce laws in the US, if some part of a marriage want to get divorce and have plenty or very good justification like mental or phisical abuse, infidelity or something that bad is ok that the bad part to pay for the divorce, but that bullshit Irreconcilable differences term whish again is bullshit should declare that the part leaving the marriage have to be the one to pay, If you dont want to get divorced and have doing nothing “BAD” the one that got bored or simple want to leave… OK pay for the fucking divorce yourself!.
Luria which I used to love (even more than neal to be honest) had become a pure comercial and I want money wannabe, I got heartbroken seen how horrible she treat neal. Charging money for iOS apps for premium content? BS!.
I dont want to insult her and even less in this place(neal blog) but all those bad naes a woman can be called… she deserve them ALL.
Neil take it one day at a time and things will get better.
And I know that many of us can’t wait for you to get your next project going.
Your future will be bright
Neal:
I’m glad to see you’re starting to cut your losses and move on with things. I’ve only heard your side of things through this whole mess but it definitely sounds like things have gone sour in the Luria camp. Yet you get another bonus point for actually talking about things and trying to share with others. Locking it all behind the veil of a shallow online tech personality and saying “it’s personal” doesn’t say “I don’t want to talk about it because it’s personal” it says “I’m ashamed of what I did, but please please follow me on Google+ I’ll be your best friend ever!”
You and Luria made up those intellectual properties and they’re now shells of what they used to be, plastic, over polished, and lacking that personal touch that GeekBrief was actually known for. It’s just “yet another tech videocast” on the internet, regularly three or four days behind the news. I constantly read the headlines and say “Thanks, but that was last week”.
I’m glad you’ve gotten yourself away from that mess and I sincerely hope that someday soon you’ll be so far from it you won’t even think or post about it because it won’t be in your life.
Keep on Keepin’ on sir.