September 14, 2003

Subject: final season

Hey Rob Fans!

Some of you may be wondering how Rob is doing. He is still doing very well as we count the days to the halfway house date (52 :)). There is still a slim chance that date could change to an earlier date as Rob's motion is still sitting on a judges desk Boston waiting for a reply. In any case, the end is really beginning to come in to focus. :)

Now that I have been able to successfully visit Rob for two weeks in a row --we are feeling confident that prison officials have moved on to other things not concerning Rob. That is a huge relief! As you can imagine, we have had a lot of catching up to do! One of the things Rob was not able to share with me before is that there is a strong possibility that my asking Rob's attorney to send a letter of inquiry to the warden while he was in "the hole" may have been what triggered his release after a three weeks stay there in May. (thank you Joe and Kristina!!) He had heard this from someone on staff there --so it is likely to be valid info. It's good to know that our efforts were paying off in the long run.

The freerobrothberg.com web site has been back up for a while now and is again bringing in a lot of really nice letters and a little bit a cash from supporters all over the world. Just this week we received email messages from France, Sweden, Italy, Germany and Norway! Of course all information regarding the prison has been removed --and a new link to help with Rob's upcoming job search has been added. It will be interesting to see if any offers come of it.

Rob just "celebrated" his second birthday in prison last Thursday (9/11--not a happy day to begin with! :P) It was not an easy day to get through, but not as bad as the one he had last year. He ended up with the day off from work --so was at least able to run, read and work on his logic puzzles all day instead of picking up goose poo in the parking lot! :)

Speaking of running; Rob ran half a marathon (13 miles) last week in under 2 hrs 15 mins! He is looking and feeling better than ever. His attitude is really positive as well. I always knew he was capable of great things. Hopefully now he knows it too. :))

That's all for now!

Cheers,
Shannon