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| February 4th, 2003 |
| Lots of news to update you with... My dear friends, Once again I find myself having to apologise to you for lack of updates. For those of you closest to me, you already know what happened...but for the rest of you, let me recap: My father, Chuck Kargel, passed away on November 9th, 2002. He was 57. It was very sudden, but it was also mercifully quick...he suffered massive cardiac arrest and almost literally dropped dead in front of us. You cannot help but feel a bit traumatized having your father collapse and die in front of you and there you are trying to save him. You could say, in a manner of speaking, that it had been a good day to die. He had been doing what he enjoyed doing that day, anything having to do with model/toy trains, and when he died, it was quick, so he didn't really suffer much at all...and he was in the company of his wife and both of his children in the end. I couldn't think of a better way to go, and I am sure he would have agreed. I plan on putting up a memorial page to my dad, much like the one I already have up for my son Royce. I just need to scan some decent pictures of him to post. I don't have to remind you, but this is yet another disappointment in a year that has been full of disappointments. And when I say disappointments, I am being sarcastic...that is a bit of an understatement. The year 2002 was without question the worst year of my life. Here's to hoping that 2003 is a better year for all of us. In fact, my birthday is fast approaching. My mother Peggy is going to be coming up and visiting during that weekend. It will be good for her and for me. I know she has to be very lonely now that Dad is gone. I know that she knew in her heart for a long time that she would outlive my Dad, but does that make things any easier to cope with knowing this when it actually happens? Another depressing subject: The recent loss of the space shuttle Columbia is a real heart-breaker. I had a really horrible day the day it happened. I was stuck at work, and knew that it happened, but I was also spared seeing the video footage of the disaster over and over again. I really hope that the space program will recover and there won't be too much time wasted "on the ground". My sincerest sympathies go out to the families of the crew. I am running out of space for this Geocities account, and I still have a lot of images to put up. I may create a "dummy" Geocities site without using an index page to store the images and link from my "main" site to them. I will have to play around with this and see what happens. Thanks for being so patient! Once things settle down a bit, I will try and give things a proper updating! Live Long and Prosper, Bill |
