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| Sep 20, 2007, 10:30 AM, More Sad News |
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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.
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| Jul 26 2004, 8:10 AM, Sad News |
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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.
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| Apr 12 2004, 12:34 PM, Mary-Kate and Ashley |
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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.
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| Dec 12 2003, 5:36 PM, Amusing Quote |
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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)
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| Jun 24 2003, 12:50 PM, Places to avoid / Bad business |
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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
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| Jan 29 2003, 6:15 PM, New Website |
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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. :)
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