It's obvious from the appearance and content of this website, I don't have time to update it much.

But that's not the sad news... This is:

My father passed away in March of this year. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February, and 40 days later he was gone. It's a nasty disease that pretty much once you have a symptom of it, it's already too late. He will be very, very missed.

I love ya Pop.

A long-time friend of mine, Brian Bastion, passed away after the small plane he was in crashed in Wheeling, West Virginia on July 19th in bad fog.

It's been years since Brian and I have talked.. I think we lost track of each other when he moved to New Orleans and I moved a couple places in Peoria. I no longer knew how to get ahold of him and he didn't know how to get ahold of me (I assume). I couldn't remember enough specific details about his family to try and look them up. It turns out he's been back in Bloomington for quite awhile and I never knew it.

I was able to visit with his family and fiancé very briefly on Sunday and attend his memorial service. I'm very glad I was able to go. It was really nice to see them all again, but I wish it would have been under different, better circumstances. What I've written here doesn't do justice to what I'm thinking, or to one of his best friends and one of his uncles who spoke at the services. They both did an amazing job.

I'm in the process of gathering all my photos of Brian and scanning them in and getting copies printed. I'm going to make copies all of the videos and audio tapes I have with him. Lastly I'm trying to collect all the references to the accident and about him and include them in what I give to his family.

He was a good friend and a talented musician. He will be missed.

The amount of email I get regarding the "famous Olsen twins" amazes me a bit, since this website has nothing to do with them. :)

I'm sure, a few generations back, I'm related to them, but we've never met at a family reunion (and never will, I'm sure) and they wouldn't know me or my family from Adam.

I'm sure my own children would love to meet their "famous relatives", but it's one of those things that will probably never happen.

So, I'm sorry to disappoint you if you came here looking for Mary-Kate and Ashley, but I don't know them personally and have no way to pass on comments or fan mail to them.

I don't know the author, but I found it amusing:

There are 10 types of people when it comes to binary numbers:
those who understand them, and those who don't.

(For those in the latter category: The number 10 in binary is
2 in decimal)

These are all places we've had such extrodinarily bad experiences at that I strongly recommend people avoid these places. Every now and then you'll have a bad experience anywhere you go, but we've had such terrible experiences at these places I can't just dismiss them as a fluke since the problems esalated to management levels and was still completely and inappropriately mishandled. I'm not going to go into detail here on what our exeperiences were, but you can email me (see "contact" page) if you really want to know.

  • Mattress Doctor, Peoria, IL
  • Lakeview Aquatic Center - Peoria Park District, Peoria, IL

Welcome!

It's long overdue.. I rolled out a new version of the website. It's basic and bland, but it's a little bit better than what I had before. I've created some new sections, but I admit there's not much in them yet. :)