Gosh buddy it's been over 12 years now, 7 since I last posted. I wish I could say everything went smoothly and I got that promotion liked I talked baout in my last post here, but things kind of went sideways off the rails.

But that's how adventure happens right? I got engaged, it blew up in my face royally. I dated again, became attached, even rode ( Read more... )

Ten years and I still miss you, hun.

I thought we'd have all the time in the world. You were so close now that I didn't think we needed to hang out at con. A few months more and I'd have been driving down to see you.

We'd spoken so much online, but aside for a few stolen moments at con... I wish we had got connecting rooms like we planned.

But you ( Read more... )

It has been a while. A while since we talked, a while since we suited together, a while since we rode together to L.A., seen sights and lived together at your place. Five years since we said goodbye at the airport. One last hug, one last call on the phone. And when I touched down back in Europe, you were not with us any more. No one there to answer ( Read more... )

Thought I'd share this cross post, to put along with the other memories and memorials. Hope no one minds the spam ( Read more... )

So this 5 year anniversary reminded me to post a recent Furp story of mine ( Read more... )

It is...  Amazing to me that five years have passed.  In some ways it feels like several lifetimes have come and gone and in others, it feels like just the other day, I was sitting in a car with one of my closest friends, nervously practicing our eulogies for him...
Because, in my mind at this point, his life and his death are so completely ( Read more... )

5 years to the day, how long I have missed you. I wonder if I am the same person you knew back then, so many stories to tell of time gone by - I can remember eagerly waiting to get home from work just to tell you stories of my day... Now they'd be crazier than ever, and saltier dips than many did see in a Navy ( Read more... )

Lynne was cleaning out the basement and found its like a luggage item for a bike. It is Furp's and if you would like it please contact her.

LJ just sent me an email saying they'd be purging my account for inactivity, so I went ahead and logged in and checked my friends list. It's still hard for me to find Furp listed there.

I assume that they spare memorial accounts. (Does anyone know for certain, though?)

This is a question for any of you old timers that knew Furp well back in the earlier days of his time with US Military, the times when he was Navy and away at sea, if any of you can recall such times ( Read more... )