Lori and I remember the kids first day of school some 15 years ago or so. I think we had a party almost every year they started school. Today both boys are in college. Hard to believe when you really think about it. Best of luck to both of them.
Yesterday after the gym and some work around here, Marty and I hit the range. Afterwards Lori made us a great dinner and then Marty and I washed the entire outside windows on the house. He used to wash windows in college and showed me the trick. I can’t believe what a difference it makes. They’re so clear it’s like they aren’t even there. It’s been a good year since they were washed, and it cost us at least $500 last time. We knocked out the outside in about 30 minutes. A big thank you to Marty.
Around 9pm my phone rang, and a friend called to tell me our close friend of 20 years, killed himself yesterday. Eric was the son of the original CFO of Microsoft. I’ve talked about him before as Eric was an eccentric guy who raced vintage cars in Europe and traveled the World taking pictures of various places. He was socially awkward but a great guy. He recently sold his place in downtown Vail for $20 million. He told me he was thinking of moving to London for a while. We were sort of shocked but that was Eric. I was thinking of him yesterday as I saw a book on Porsche 911’s when in a store with Lori and it made me think of him. Eric had an extensive library of books on cars as he loved them, and I have a few that he loaned me. He collected Ferrari’s, Porsches’, Alfa Romero’s, and more. They were spread all around the Country in different storage facilities. I won’t go into details as it doesn’t matter but it’s so sad. His dad, John is flying in today. We were talking the past couple years about taking his dads plane and taking a trip to Europe. This is not just a plane but a commercial airliner, I think it’s a Boeing 757. Wish we would have known how he was struggling as we all would have reached out. I did text him a couple weeks ago but it was normal not to hear from him for a month or so. May God Bless him and take care of him and provide him peace.
Make it a great day and cherish life. No matter how bad things are, they aren’t that bad! I promise. God Bless.