Sometime yesterday (Monday, March 27 2017) a cleaner called the neighbor, Dan Sweet, and got no answer and no return call within the usual time. Another call was made to have someone check on the fellow. He was found, sitting in his chair, dead. There were, I am told, no signs of any flailing or anything. He just stopped ( Read more... )

On the night of July 4, I was at work and quite busy. When I finally got a break, I noticed a missed call (my cell is set to be silent, and have all non-telephone systems off or as power-conserving as I can set them when working) from earlier, but still late in the evening. My mother and a friend who is, shall we say, no spring chicken (or rooster ( Read more... )

For a couple years I had a part-time job, to help fill things in a bit, that took up every other weekend. The person who ran the place had another job as well, helping care for a few folks with some disabilities, including one fellow who had some sort of nerve disorder that kept him in a wheelchair and made it hard for him to communicate. I can ( Read more... )

Wednesday the fifth I was looking forward to a couple nights off away from any work and pretty much relaxing. Maybe I'd fiddle one computer or another and I'd probably bake a cake. Then the phone rang ( Read more... )

Pop star Michael Jackson is still dead.

As some folks know a fellow known by some as "Furp" was killed in an traffic accident. hakeber has the news reports of the accident. The rather well known unclekage has a short post that's gotten many responses. smashwolf seems to to be planning a memorial motorcycle ride and there is now a remember_furp LJ community for folks to post their stories and such. film2edit has a few posts about ( Read more... )

October has not been a kind month. I didn't know Hank Reinhardt, and I only barely even met him, but I did know of him. He got a delivery (for which all credit should go to mzmadmike) from ACME (no pictures of it, alas) at this year's LibertyCon. I really hope he got a good laugh or several from it. Today I found out that Hank Reinhardt died yesterday.

A small part of my visit to Florida was spent having a few fursuitters visit the ailing Kimberfox. I was there, as Orvan, and so I saw him for maybe half an hour at the most. I recall him being a sort of tired cheerful. He wanted to joke around and did joke some about all the morphine he had been prescribed. That indicates how well he was ( Read more... )

I don't recall ever watching Steve Irwin, though I might have seen him on the Tonight Show or similar. I wasn't a fan and so didn't make a point of looking for his appearances. I was certainly aware of him as he became a cultural reference in several places. The place I saw him portrayed was Irregular Webcomic where he appeared in one of the ( Read more... )

Today is World AIDS Day and you may make of that what you will. I did know someone afflicted with AIDS. A few years ago, he died of it, or if you prefer, of the secondary infections that AIDS makes possible.

This person was Dr. Paul E. Gray, a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. He was happily ( Read more... )