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Some things need to be said. In case this is too long to read.

Some things that need to be said

First and foremost, Marilyn Reindl-Carlberg will, unfortunately, go to her grave never having spoken to me since my parents' divorce began. This is cruel, I'll admit. Before 28 February 2008, I had decided this as a way to manipulate my father into the position of apologizing for his malintent over, at least, the past three years. Once that day came, however, it appears that she saw fit to involve herself directly in the eviction of me and my mother from the house at 410 E US Highway 50 in O'Fallon, Illinois, and she involved herself in a way that was not in my best interest.

Additionally, I will also never speak to Stephen Reindl or Kristi Vetri in any manner. This means that they will also go to their respective graves having not directly had any meaningful correspondence with me up until recent history. Sorry, but it needs to be done.

It really should go without saying that I am an adult. I'm the only one in control of my actions; no one else holds that privilege. The fact that I chose to "side" with my mother in this whole mess should have implied a number of things from day one, namely

  1. My decision was obviously not financially motivated.

  2. My decision was not based on my like or dislike of Greater St. Louis. To be quite honest, I've always hated the area.

  3. My decision was not based on the availability of work. To date, I've had a wide spattering of offers, due to the wide network of contacts that I keep, for nice starting positions in cities elsewhere that I've had to turn down.

    Moreover, I've not held a "steady" job since August 2006; all of my income since then has been from freelancing projects and grant-funded student employment appointments related to my field of study at SIUE. The most recent one was as a numerical analyst on a solid state physics project.

    Obtaining my income this way seems to be the only sure way any of you will not be any more successful at talking to me face-to-face like Viola who the Christ cares what the hell your last name is? has done with my mother at her place of employment and has already done with me during fall semester 2006 while I was walking down the street to attend a casual meeting with a client of mine at the time.

  4. I saw a larger net benefit with regard to family stability in taking this route than the alternatives.

  5. I wanted out of O'Fallon politics.

Admittedly, doing this hasn't given me the widest range of liberties, but I figured that keeping my mother from, e.g., snapping under the pressure of the harassment from Stephen Reindl and Kristi Vetri was a good compromise.

Addendum (2009-06-08): As an aside, in the dialect of German spoken in Bayern and Oberösterreich, the name "Reindl" actually refers to a piece of casserole dishware.

The bottom line

Now that I've said all of that, let's get to the bottom line. I'm tired of the phone calls, the random messages in my email inbox, the MySpace friend requests, and the followers on Twitter. I want nothing at all to do with you people, and I expect you to show the same courtesy. In other words, as far as you're concerned, I do not exist. Furthermore, if you're reading this and happen to hold any association at all to Marilyn Reindl-Carlberg, Kristi Vetri, or Stephen Reindl, including (and especially) friendship or business connection, you are NOT to contact me directly. If you see me in public, do not greet me; keep walking. This includes, but is not limited to, the following people:

Consider yourselves warned. Any breach of this will be considered harassment, and I will get law enforcement involved. This is ridiculous.

Addendum (2009-06-08): Any further attempts at direct communication will result in the resultant correspondence and all associated data I see fit to include being posted to another page here on corvidae.org. For phone calls, this means that I will most likely be releasing the phone number from which the call originated. This is a hint to zero out your ANI before calling me!

As far as my property is concerned, Stephen Reindl is still in possession of at least

and he has refused to return these items to me upon earlier request with the justification that this property was abandoned and that he was being generous enough in giving me the opportunity to recover said items. He also denied me access to my permanent residence after 28 February 2008; I was homeless in some sense between then and 12 March 2008.

Unfortunately, any property that I left at 410 E US Highway 50 on 28 February 2008 cannot be considered abandoned as I was not personally given sufficient advance notice (i.e., 30 days) of eviction, and my residence at the time was single student university housing on the SIUE campus, which is temporary by definition. My permanent address was listed with the university as being 410 E US Highway 50 on 28 February 2008.

Too long; didn't read

In short, give me back my shit and fuck off. I'm not missing anything important by not associating with any of you. None of you who think you know any part of the story were here to experience any of this in our shoes as it was actually happening.

Addendum (2009-06-08): I would also like to mention that I'm being entirely non-judgmental here. I've made no attacks of character in the above text, and I've said nothing to any effect here regarding whether or not I actually like or dislike any of you. Correlation does not imply causation; the fact that I want nothing to do with you does not imply that I dislike you. QED.

Nevertheless, if you absolutely must get in touch with me, and you belong to the above list of individuals, you may contact my attorney to relay correspondence at the following address:

Michael McGlynn
McGlynn & McGlynn
116 S. Charles St.
Belleville, IL 62220