Playoff Time

R,
It's playoff time...my first playoff season without you.
I thought about you all day yesterday...

• the blueberry shakes we used to make together
• the Pens games we got excited about
• the SSMB (brawl) games you always dominated
• yes, even as Yoshi
• reading aloud to you
• singing old timey songs on the projector (but never country)
• listening to Linger
• chattering away to your listening ear
• watching J kiss your smiling face

You're exceptional in so many ways, I can't even count them. And I can count pretty high, because of the stacks of beans I count all day. Seems like there is no problem you couldn't solve, except the problem of cancer. And you gave the crab a pretty good run for its money. Quietly impressive, is how I would describe you. No flash, no bling, just steady as a rock.

Love you, miss you.