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And as a general comment...... Connie who?

Zach may not be happy, but so much of this is a consequence of his decisions, his being in the closest and the choices he has made. Travis needs Will's love and support and Stef's firepower. This should be delicious. I think Vaughan is a shit. I can't wait for his three way with Travis and Will. Zach is the ultimate beneficiary of having his cake and eating it too, but that is because of Will's enabling him. Will should have made a clean break when Zach chose college football. I think Will is also guilty of a shit load of ‘it's all about me’, starting with drugging his father and 'running away' after laying down a self indulgent path of destruction. I don't think Zach is a prick for choosing football, it is really all he has going for him so far, to make something of himself. What is wrong is making Will play along. If he loved Will he'd have cut him loose and told him to move on (not that Will has been chaste). I think that is a perfect description of Will. I think the complication begins now.

Travis is way better suited for Will than.... Connie, Zach, Patrick, Kai, just about any of these people because Will and Travis are in the same stage of life, have been raised in the same universe of wealth and privilege (and yes that matters greatly) and are very compatible physically. Oh one can dream...

They don't give up their stock, but it is swapped into a different entity. It could be Class A Shares, Class B or something else.

What is tricky about the Wedge, and why it is called the Wedge, is that the angle of the jetty (the wedge area), relative to the direction of the swell creates a bigger wave as it reflects off the Jetty. A wave that would be a 10 foot face wave hits the jetty, and the energy of that wave, then reflects out of the wedge to becomes a 20 foot face wave, and just to make things more fun, that 20 foot face wave is breaking in 18 inches of water. And I am really digging Travis. I hope things go well for him.

It doesn't work like that. If the original shareholders of the private company kept the same percent of the as it went public, there would be no shares to sell to the public. As of now (May 2023), if Will had never taken profits on it (which he should/would) I figure his stock value at about $4.5 - $6 billion.

Will is so shady he's a whole damn forest. I think Will will be able to use the recordings and CB doing junior miss big boobs to get him to back off Travis. I hope we get to see Travis beyond this book. OMG, Will has sex with 10 people for every 1 that Zach does. A threesome of Will Zach and Travis would be hot, but more than anything I hope Will is able to help Travis with his father. Oh Will's family is way more fucked up than the Bucks...

OMG I would get out my phone and start recording. We now know why Curtis Buck never picked up on Zach fooling with a guy, it was right under his nose! I wanted Will to stay at Harvard Westlake. Oh.... and Will didn't move to San Francisco, he moved to Palo Alto.

I don't like coke users. Maybe that is one reason I don't like Will. Naw, it's because I've known a half dozen Will Schluters in my life; little rich kids who think they can get away with anything they want. With Jake in their lives they should have all kinds of cool devices. Alister is still my favorite of Will's hook-ups. If the comments from that story are still around I encouraged Mr. Arbour to have this quality young man be the one that Will wound up with.

Seriously, does anyone doubt Will is an ass after this chapter? Can anyone explain the attraction to getting fucked up on drugs, shots and beer?

I think Will should be a nice person and treat people well. “There will be, as soon as I get home,” I told him, and not all that nicely. WTF, why is he flipping shit and attitude at Jake, who doesn't deserve it and is doing Will a favor. I think he treated Cody badly because he can. I also thought he was out of control with Jeff. He was a petulant little bitch. Will really is awful. He puts up with it and enables it.

Will is the one I want him by a bus.... and dragged a few hundred yards before is it able to stop. I think Will behaved like an ass. A mature person would have controlled himself and expressed disappointment and not go off in a teenage girl hissy fit. Will treated both Cody and Jeff ill. I think Will is a complete pussy and hypocrite. Zach forces Will to do all kinds of things and only sees or talks to Will on his own terms, never Wills. Will would never tolerate that from anyone else.

Will and Darius can casually let her know about JJ's circumstances and do it so JJ never knows. It is a small world because people travel in small circles, be it Hollywood or tennis or the dog show set. The circles often intersect, but that is how your circle expands. For a change? He's had 58 lovers and he isn't 17 yet. Do they still own both condos in the Colony? Be surprising if Cam lived close by. I like JJ far better than I like Will. I do think Mark has let JJ's character get a little too far down the diva track. I hope he returns to the sweeter kid he was in earlier books. There are time to let things go and times to intervene. This is a time to intervene and without JJ knowing, if possible. If there is a stuck up, pompous punk ass bitch, who needs to be taken down a few pegs and knocked off the pedestal he places himself on, it is Will.

“I was,” I said, then told him all about my visit, and how awesome Maddy was. Maddy was his daughter and my half-sister. Man is this family fucked up ha ha.. "he's my brother, my cousin and my uncle...." So many names from the past, Alex, Jeff Grimes, Cody & Kevin..... it's been a long time since the story has been So Cal focused.

I am still back on Chapter 39, but catching up. I know that 2014 to 2020 are a long ways off but nothing was more amusing to me in that era in SF than Gypsy Taub and her activism in Berkeley and SF for the cause of natural drugs (psychedelics - weed, peyote & mushrooms) and Body Freedom (read being naked in the Castro) - Nude Summer of Love Parade San Francisco 2016 Perhaps there could be some interesting storylines.

“I can keep my mouth shut,” I said. - Not if there is hard dick within 20 feet... I feel more for Zach who can't be who he is openly. He also doesn't have obnoxious wealth to fall back on should his plans get derailed. I don't get why Will is going to Harvard other than ego and to impress people. He'd be much happier at USC or UCSD majoring in Marine Science & Environment getting ready to confront the problems of the worlds reefs. Its not too late Mr. Arbour. Think of Will surfing every day at Black's Beach (nude beach just below UCSD) and what adventures would result from that. The NFL will be easier for gay players when Tom Brady finally comes out and he and Aaron Rodgers proclaim their love for each other. Sorry Gisele, you just weren't enough.

A trusts restrictive covenants are the right of the person creating the trust. Almost every trust I do for very wealthy people creating trusts for their children involves markers, age or accomplishments. The most common markers of age are 18, 25 and 30. I don't recall any as late as 50. As to accomplishments, college graduation, marriage, birth of first child, are among the more common ones. Wealthy parents and grandparents do worry that giving too much money too soon will ruin kids and in a lot of cases, they are correct. The dilemma is always on one hand wanting to provide for loved ones and making sure they are cared for versus the other hand of wanting them to develop some of the drive and ambition that they had that made them wealthy to begin with. I was thinking more of Jake doing pro bono work, maybe focus on homeless vets, vets denied benefits, etc. The family could easily set up a non-profit law office for Jake with a small staff.

“I think they think their actions and opinions matter more to me and my cousins than they do,” I said. “Way more.” I don't think it is a case of mattering more, but having more life experience and already made some of those painful mistakes and want to spare their kids pain. If someone said, 'I think I'm going to put my hand on that hot stove' and you said 'I think that is a bad idea', does your opinion matter more, or is it just more informed on the consequences of putting your hand on a hot stove? “After I read Mike’s report, I didn’t think that mattered,” I said. “I guess I didn’t have confidence in their judgment, so I made the decision based on the grant request.” Will doesn't have confidence in their judgment without knowing why they made the decision? That seems pretty messed up. But we don't know why the grant was turned down. Lots of worthy proposals that fit within the funding priorities of a foundation get turned down because there is only so much money to go around. If 500 proposals were submitted and you only have the funds to cover 50, a lot of worthy, deserving, eligible proposals will be turned down. I think you either believe in your staff or you do not. JP was right that the Board's job is oversight, not management. If the Board is going to take over the grantmaking process, then you do not need a staff. Yes you can deny it. Mike wouldn't have seen all the grant requests, he might have seen the final grantees, but he would not have been privy to the deliberations on who was given a grant and who was not and why.

They are overplayed sometimes, but they are also a shortcut. If you had to present three or four individual family dinners and show how what happened at each got communicated, it could consume several chapters. No, but he isn't swearing off family money and striking out on his own and be independent, he wants his cake and wants to eat it too. Before he goes off at a foundation meeting, Will should evaluate his lifestyle and think about how the money spent on his car, planes, homes in Maui and Malibu, wardrobe, etc could be put to better uses. There are mistakes and then there MISTAKES. Didn't Claire have a twin brother, Billy? Smoking pot and even ecstasy, is one thing; cocaine, LSD, and pills take it to another level and if John is supplying friends, he opens himself to trafficking charges. The Menlo School is $55,000 a year tuition, you bet I am riding my kids to keep them focused. Jack, as a doctor, sees the smashed up kids who make "mistakes". He's probably had to pull the sheet over a few of them. I am sure he went to the lobby and told the anxious parents, "well kids make mistakes you know". Mature? "I'm throwing away several years of a top flight education to join a boy band that might or might not make it, oh and I am flying to Malibu to go party, drink and do more drugs." But not full independence, he is still going to be sucking off the family teat. He's not becoming Saint Francis of Assisi exactly. When your children become teens and they start driving, it is very easy to become stuffy.

There are good charities and bad charities. Some charities hide what should be administrative expenses in their program expenses. Instead of spending money on a homeless shelter in their End Homelessness initiative, they are sending board members or program staff to a symposium on how to end homelessness in Palm Desert in January, and so on. The charitable foundation world can be a huge scam while being 100% legal. It would not be unusual for a foundation to have office space in the corporate building. The massive Coca-Cola Foundation, for example, is at One Coca-Cola Plaza in Atlanta.

Surely the beach house must have a lockdown feature on the gate so it won't open. I don't even know where to begin with Brad and Jake. I've been busting Will's balls on his maturity level, but B&J are over the top, take the cake. I hope we are done with the drug crap. I absolutely hate drugs.

Thems some fucked up dewds.

It makes no sense at all. Adults should be able to have rational conversations without going off on a meth binge. I get that Jake would like to remove the stain on his name, but he is in a different commitment now. The honorable thing to do is honor that commitment. The rational thing would have been to involve the family (meaning Stef & JP) in what was on the table and talk things out. Of course that it dull. Brad was too nice. I would have chained the little bastard to a radiator.

Gawd I love gay marriage. Why should breeders have all that misery just for themselves! Thank goodness for pre-nups. Yeah something happened. Brad married a guy after not knowing him long enough and way, way, WAY too soon after Robbie's death. That should have been obvious to everyone.

PS Facebook moves to Palo Alto four months after this.