Dear Vinny,
I want to take a minute in an attempt to clear the air about the events around last Dexcon, more specificly about my own choice of words and actions. The night that i opted to pull my events out of the con was one of the most difficult of my life and at the time I wasn't thinking clearly about anything other then the personal emergency that was going on.
The night that all this happened my best friend Lou died. I had no car and it being sunday public transportation was limited at best. Less then ten minutes after I got that call was when everything happened between the two of us. I'm not trying to justify how I handled things (I'll admit here and now I could have handled things a lot better then I did, not easy to admit but its the truth) I'm just trying to give some context to the situation. I was neither emotionally nor mentally ready to handle everything related to the convention since my greater priority was trying to find a way to visit my friend for the last time something that sadly didn't happen (a friend was en route to give me a lift but sadly Lou passed before they even reached me). I might have tried to fix things up after that point but when his funeral was set for the wednesday of the con I was neither mentally nor emotionally prepared to make things right, get everything together and get over to the convention. Again this doesn't justify my actions (I acknowledge i could have handled things a lot better or at least made some effort to make you aware of the situation) but hopefully it puts them in context and I do apologize for handling things the way that I did.
You and the rest of the Double Exposure staff have been very good to me over the years and i won't deny that. I"m sorry that I made the mess of things that I did and I hope that based on this you can at least understand what was going on.
Sincerely,
Kevin Meares
Kevin,
Let's consider the matter dropped now. Thank you for your help through the years.
>>>Vinny
