Crazy busy day… The thing that stands out the most is the memorial service for my friend Jeff Edwards. Jeff was one of the dads involved in Boy Scouts and Max and I were active. I was part of a cluster of guys who were my really good friends and support network during those days of having young kids. It was an interesting guy… Quiet…Very smart… Very opinionated… And a wicked dry sense of humor. His sense of humor was captured in the fact that his ashes were in a milk can… Jeff was a dairy scientist and spent all of his time testing milk. He would’ve thought that was hysterical. AtThe memorial service was in the Richmond library good portion of the town Shao. It was packed. Jeff’s wife Karen got up and talked and the one thing that she made us I’ll promise to do was to take our blood pressure medication… Jeff died of a brain aneurysm. So please text Jeff when you take your meds… Jeff’s kids Jeremy, Tyler and Kim all stood up and gave really moving tributes to their dad. It was fun stories in the midst of sadness. A bunch of other relatives to talk to talk… What are my favorite speakers with my good friend Clint wore his scout uniform in Jeff’s honor… He told about some of the great stories that we all shared and the boys were camping hiking etc.…… I remember great story when some of us dad’s including Jeff smuggled beer into the scout camp… We thought we’ve gotten away with it. Many years later I learned from Max and some of his friends that they knew perfectly well we were up to.… Jeff. That was funny.

Will miss you Jeff

Earlier in the day I had another moving moment. I went to the motor vehicles department to get my drivers license renewed. I’ll over there were signs about organization. I told the woman who was helping me about Sam and that he was an organ donor. It turns out that someone close to her it was an organ recipient… Then one of the other women working there came and brought her Samstone over… We were all there laughing and crying for a little bit. It’s pretty amazing. It turns out that they do a big donor appreciation event On national organ donation day sometime in April. I’m gonna see if I can participate

Lots of other stuff happen today including a talk I did at UVM… I guess I’ll talk about that tomorrow.

For now I got to get some sleep.

Night all, night Sam

-me