As I wrote before about John dying, the doctors want to say that he died of Sleep Apnea or however you spell it. He went to sleep shortly after eating lunch on the 5th anniversary cruise he, his entire family and his wife were on. He woke up long enough to tell his wife he truly did love her and that she looked beautiful. She then laid down with him until around 1 or 2 am when she found him not breathing. She called the EMS and his dad after she failed to revive him. The EMS then used paddles to restart his heart but by then he was dead.
John, even though he is physically gone, he is leaving behind a legacy of intelligence and logic that could never be copied or emulated. It was just strange how he was able to fix things that perplexed both Carlton and I. His ability will remain unmatched.
The hardest thing about it is not to think of the negative shit. Everyone who knew him knew him as a mentor, a brother, father figure, or a smelly fat guy who picked his scabs too much. If he were still here today, I'd trade this feeling for those scabs and the occasional nauseating downwind burst just to have him still here, in the shop.
He would buy gadgets to compete with me over who can come up with the coolest ideas when it came to using computers in new, interesting and useful ways.
He got one gadget that allowed him to have this box thing hooked up to his router, then to his cable in signal which then allowed him to transmit his cable tv to his computer here so we could watch the saints games and anything else important happening during the week.
Before he left for the cruise, he bought an adaptec Game Bridge. This thing... was cool. He left it here along with his xbox. Before he left, I was testing the little gadget out. We were both cracking up laughing because we were trying to play a stupid game called MoJo!. But it was simply the fact that we were happy we were using something that was so simple yet so effective.
He wanted me to get his Xbox modded for him. He couldn't find what he was looking for online so he left it at the shop for me to bring to a friend of mine's house. When I found out monday that he had passed away, I stayed at that friend's house until nearly 2 am, waiting for him to finish soft modding John's xbox. It now sits in my room as a reminder of John's passion and love.
At the funeral I saw people I haven't seen in years. People from Computer Discounters which was truly my mall. Instead of being a mall rat, I was a Computer Discounters Rat. I would spend hours there just hanging out, talking about new technologies, testing new ones out, drooling over the latest shit to come out of silicon's valley .
Yeah I'm a nerd. Bite me.
Anyway. That's about all I have to say for now.
later.
