Monday, June 27, 2016
I am sorry I was out of country when this happened and unable to attend his funeral. Joe has been my friend throughout my life through the wild and the mundane. He is one of only a handful of people in my life who I knew if called upon would move heaven and earth to help me and his loss cripples me, I only wish there was a better way I could have helped him. It amused him to know I used him and his life as both warning and inspiration to my own children. On the positive side his willingness to see a goal and sincerely put heart and soul into accomplishing it letting no barrier stand before him. On the negative side, that Dennis the Menace attitude of telling him "whatever you do just don't touch that button" and then his inability not to go press it just because he was told not to and he had to see what would happen. He brought joy and unpredictability into this world and he is sincerely missed.
