My friend, you will be missed.

Yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life. My good friend Rusty, died in a motorcycle accident, late Thursday night.

When I had first met Rusty, it was of course at work. I had seen him around a lot, he was a very tall impressive man so he would be hard to miss. Anyway, I was getting some water from the cooler which was right by his desk at the time. I saw he was reading a Rifts campaign sourcebook. I was very impressed, previous to that I thought I was the only one in the company that had even heard of the game, much less played it. So I had to stop and say Hi and let him know how cool it was that someone else enjoyed the game I had so much fun with in highschool.

From there we became friends. I think we became real good friends the day a tornado hit his Mother’s house in a teeny town in Iowa. He wanted to ride his motorcycle down to help her, I just happened to be spending the night over there after a game night. Well there was no way I was going to let him ride his motorcycle through a tornado producing thunderstorm so I took the day off work as well and gave him a ride down and helped out all that day.

Rusty was a good guy, he cared for his friends, he touched a lot of lives. Our office damn, near had to shut down yesterday because of all the people who loved him. So I know he is going to the right place. But he will certainly be missed by all of us who knew him.

I’ve often had the feeling in the past, what would happen if I just suddenly disappeared. I’d be able to escape my pains, my responsibilities, everything. Now, now I know the answer to that question. And all the lives it would affect. No longer will I question.

This is a hard blog to write. The hardest one I have ever written. I know most of the people reading this knew Rusty and are just as distraught as I am. I know this though, Rusty would be happy knowing that we are all here for each other, and care for each other in this time of great need.

God speed Rusty, we’re going to miss you.