OKC Convention Part 4
March 14, evening.
(I’m going to summarize rather than go blow by blow for the remainder of the time & texts, with the exception of some key portions of text).
8-9PM. TA asks CL what she’s doing that evening, she tells him to let her know when he finishes working out; he tells the he knows how to make slow/bad portions of convention better by squeezing in PD reading and knowing when to leave to do more important things; the replies-Yeah! And that she’s “read more than 25 pages today during convention!”, then asks TA what he’s doing after his workout-- will he be coming down to the lobby for a little while to “visit?” TA replies-Yeah; other texting between TA and team members about who will be where doing what that evening.
9:20. Sky texts that “Zion needs some CL love,” TA replies he’ll have CL over there in 20 minutes.
9:22. TA to CL: what r u doing?
9:22 CL: Getting dressed.
u?
9:24. TA: Getting naked
9:29. CL: Lol, ur bad
9:30. TA: It is true. Sky wants me to introduce you to Zion her brother. I don’t feel good about it because he will probably steal you from me but you’ll meet him either way I’m sure.
9:31. TA to : Can u grab me some triple A batteries (she obviously didn’t bring TA the batteries the last time he asked her).
9:32 CL: Oh Travis don’t be goofy You already introduced him to me anyway, remember? Lol.
9:34. When r u going to be down here? (CL is in lobby).
9:37. Sky asks TA where he is.
9:37. : yeah before we hit the sack?
9:38. TA to CL: Oh yeah, anyway, Sky wants you over there she keeps texting me about it but wait until Im in the lobby. Is the () with you?
(Note: TA and the Hughes are staying in different hotels; the Hughes are at the Renaissance, TA/CL/ are at the Sheraton).
9:38. TA tells Sky they’ll be there in 10 minutes.
9:44. : Tell Zion to hurry up Chai (CL) wants to go to the Melia’s party and everyone’s ready to go!
9:45. TA: The Melia’s party is a whorehouse.
9:46. CL: Yes, she’s with me.
9:47. TA: So she tells me.
9:47. : Well she’s waiting and wants to go dance!
9:47. CL: She specifically asked so I HAD to tell her…she’s ruthless, lol
9:48. TA to CL: Yeah she is crazy.
9:50. TA to : I honestly don’t care
9:50. CL: Ok, so what’s up, because everyone is trying to convince me to go somewhere. What’s up?
9:52. TA to CL: If you want to go limo it be my guest
9:52. CL: What does that mean?
9:53. TA: () says you’re anxious to get into a limo and go to the Melia’s party.
10:02. : Where’d u go?
10:07. CL: Ur girl is driving me to drink, lol.
10:07. TA: How so? That doesn’t surprise me though
10:09. CL: Hehe. Nothing.
10:09: No, something. What. She is driving me to drinking too.
10:39. CL: Sorry, Travis, I didn’t mean to ditch u….We’re stuck at the hip. It’s a little awkward.
10:49 TA: what makes it awkward?
10:50. CL: She’s gone.
10:52. TA: Gone where?
10:53 CL: I think home.
11:10. : batteries?
11:14. TA to : are u guys back?
11:15. TA to CL: Did she tell anyone?
11:17. : I’ve been back a long time. They’re going to stay and party it up. Not my scene (obviously)
11:18. TA to : Yeah understood.
11:19. : going to sleep now.
11:21. . Where abouts are u?
11:22. CL. Yes, she told me. I should have walked with her!
11:26. TA: Come back
11:26 CL: Where are you
11:35 TA: Renaissance
11:37 TA: R U at the Sheraton
11:37 CL: I’m at the Skyy Bar
11:37 TA: Where is that?
11:38 CL: I have to walk back
11:42PM. TA: where is that, I’ll walk u back. CL doesn’t reply. TA goes looking for her, keeps texting her trying to find her, reaches the Skyy Bar (a dance/nightclub) shortly before midnight, then tells her he’s seen “enough drunk idiots for one lifetime,” that’s he’s walking back to their hotel, that’s he’s worried about her.
12:31AM. TA tells CL he’s glad she’s OK, she replies she’s sorry she worried him, thanks for checking in, good night.
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The met Ryan Burns at the Melia’s “party,” which was held someplace other than either the Sheraton or the Renaissance. (The “Melias” are Steve and Kim Melia; in 2008 they were $250k PPL ring earners and Millionaire Club members).
As I read it, made sure CL didn’t escape her clutches, told TA that CL wanted to go with her in a limo (with Zion?) to the Melia party (debatable), and that CL and he left in a limo sometime between 9:50-10:02. The stayed at the party less than an hour, and possibly only about 40 minutes or so. Whatever else she did there, she must have made quick work of introducing herself to Ryan Burns.
The ditched CL, leaving (on foot, or given a ride, alone, or with someone) sometime between 10:40-10:50PM, yet texted TA at 11:17 that she was back in her room and had been there a “long time,” because the partying thing “wasn’t her scene.”
The earliest CL could have returned to the room she shared with the at the Sheraton was around 11:50PM, though it’s possible she didn’t return until closer to 12:30, when TA seems to have finally reached her by phone.
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What was all this about? Who knows. Maybe the ’s goal was simply to keep TA away from CL (she succeeded in that, AGAIN, 2 nights in a row). Maybe she pulled another of her vanishing -with-a-married -man for-an-hour acts that Sky has written about (including on a PPL trip with TA when they were “official”).
Maybe the had already targeted Ryan Burns, and in the same way she originally targeted Travis, by going hunting in exclusive, “high roller” events within PPL events. Whatever her intentions, the had put initial hooks into Ryan, this even before she left Mesa.
But, again, my focus is on Travis this round, not on the . It’s difficult to relay adequately what else the full text record suggests (an incomplete record in any case)--the cost to Travis of the ’s game playing, even here, in his element, surrounded by his friends and business associates.
Each time TA is preoccupied with the and her maneuvers, TA’s team members are trying to reach him, to ask for his advice, to run ideas past him, to try to arrange to meet up with him socially. It isn’t that TA completely ignores them in each instance (though he occasionally does that too), but neither does he seem capable (or willing?) of keeping his focus on his team, which, in the PPL world, was synonymous with his income flow.
TBC.
March 14, evening.
(I’m going to summarize rather than go blow by blow for the remainder of the time & texts, with the exception of some key portions of text).
8-9PM. TA asks CL what she’s doing that evening, she tells him to let her know when he finishes working out; he tells the he knows how to make slow/bad portions of convention better by squeezing in PD reading and knowing when to leave to do more important things; the replies-Yeah! And that she’s “read more than 25 pages today during convention!”, then asks TA what he’s doing after his workout-- will he be coming down to the lobby for a little while to “visit?” TA replies-Yeah; other texting between TA and team members about who will be where doing what that evening.
9:20. Sky texts that “Zion needs some CL love,” TA replies he’ll have CL over there in 20 minutes.
9:22. TA to CL: what r u doing?
9:22 CL: Getting dressed.
u?9:24. TA: Getting naked
9:29. CL: Lol, ur bad
9:30. TA: It is true. Sky wants me to introduce you to Zion her brother. I don’t feel good about it because he will probably steal you from me but you’ll meet him either way I’m sure.
9:31. TA to : Can u grab me some triple A batteries (she obviously didn’t bring TA the batteries the last time he asked her).
9:32 CL: Oh Travis don’t be goofy You already introduced him to me anyway, remember? Lol.
9:34. When r u going to be down here? (CL is in lobby).
9:37. Sky asks TA where he is.
9:37. : yeah before we hit the sack?
9:38. TA to CL: Oh yeah, anyway, Sky wants you over there she keeps texting me about it but wait until Im in the lobby. Is the () with you?
(Note: TA and the Hughes are staying in different hotels; the Hughes are at the Renaissance, TA/CL/ are at the Sheraton).
9:38. TA tells Sky they’ll be there in 10 minutes.
9:44. : Tell Zion to hurry up Chai (CL) wants to go to the Melia’s party and everyone’s ready to go!
9:45. TA: The Melia’s party is a whorehouse.
9:46. CL: Yes, she’s with me.
9:47. TA: So she tells me.
9:47. : Well she’s waiting and wants to go dance!
9:47. CL: She specifically asked so I HAD to tell her…she’s ruthless, lol
9:48. TA to CL: Yeah she is crazy.
9:50. TA to : I honestly don’t care
9:50. CL: Ok, so what’s up, because everyone is trying to convince me to go somewhere. What’s up?
9:52. TA to CL: If you want to go limo it be my guest
9:52. CL: What does that mean?
9:53. TA: () says you’re anxious to get into a limo and go to the Melia’s party.
10:02. : Where’d u go?
10:07. CL: Ur girl is driving me to drink, lol.
10:07. TA: How so? That doesn’t surprise me though
10:09. CL: Hehe. Nothing.
10:09: No, something. What. She is driving me to drinking too.
10:39. CL: Sorry, Travis, I didn’t mean to ditch u….We’re stuck at the hip. It’s a little awkward.
10:49 TA: what makes it awkward?
10:50. CL: She’s gone.
10:52. TA: Gone where?
10:53 CL: I think home.
11:10. : batteries?
11:14. TA to : are u guys back?
11:15. TA to CL: Did she tell anyone?
11:17. : I’ve been back a long time. They’re going to stay and party it up. Not my scene (obviously)
11:18. TA to : Yeah understood.
11:19. : going to sleep now.
11:21. . Where abouts are u?
11:22. CL. Yes, she told me. I should have walked with her!
11:26. TA: Come back
11:26 CL: Where are you
11:35 TA: Renaissance
11:37 TA: R U at the Sheraton
11:37 CL: I’m at the Skyy Bar
11:37 TA: Where is that?
11:38 CL: I have to walk back
11:42PM. TA: where is that, I’ll walk u back. CL doesn’t reply. TA goes looking for her, keeps texting her trying to find her, reaches the Skyy Bar (a dance/nightclub) shortly before midnight, then tells her he’s seen “enough drunk idiots for one lifetime,” that’s he’s walking back to their hotel, that’s he’s worried about her.
12:31AM. TA tells CL he’s glad she’s OK, she replies she’s sorry she worried him, thanks for checking in, good night.
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The met Ryan Burns at the Melia’s “party,” which was held someplace other than either the Sheraton or the Renaissance. (The “Melias” are Steve and Kim Melia; in 2008 they were $250k PPL ring earners and Millionaire Club members).
As I read it, made sure CL didn’t escape her clutches, told TA that CL wanted to go with her in a limo (with Zion?) to the Melia party (debatable), and that CL and he left in a limo sometime between 9:50-10:02. The stayed at the party less than an hour, and possibly only about 40 minutes or so. Whatever else she did there, she must have made quick work of introducing herself to Ryan Burns.
The ditched CL, leaving (on foot, or given a ride, alone, or with someone) sometime between 10:40-10:50PM, yet texted TA at 11:17 that she was back in her room and had been there a “long time,” because the partying thing “wasn’t her scene.”
The earliest CL could have returned to the room she shared with the at the Sheraton was around 11:50PM, though it’s possible she didn’t return until closer to 12:30, when TA seems to have finally reached her by phone.
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What was all this about? Who knows. Maybe the ’s goal was simply to keep TA away from CL (she succeeded in that, AGAIN, 2 nights in a row). Maybe she pulled another of her vanishing -with-a-married -man for-an-hour acts that Sky has written about (including on a PPL trip with TA when they were “official”).
Maybe the had already targeted Ryan Burns, and in the same way she originally targeted Travis, by going hunting in exclusive, “high roller” events within PPL events. Whatever her intentions, the had put initial hooks into Ryan, this even before she left Mesa.
But, again, my focus is on Travis this round, not on the . It’s difficult to relay adequately what else the full text record suggests (an incomplete record in any case)--the cost to Travis of the ’s game playing, even here, in his element, surrounded by his friends and business associates.
Each time TA is preoccupied with the and her maneuvers, TA’s team members are trying to reach him, to ask for his advice, to run ideas past him, to try to arrange to meet up with him socially. It isn’t that TA completely ignores them in each instance (though he occasionally does that too), but neither does he seem capable (or willing?) of keeping his focus on his team, which, in the PPL world, was synonymous with his income flow.
TBC.
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