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He was a really good guy who almost always wore a smile and had a kind word. He was smart and really interesting. He'd traced his ancestry back to Scotland and played the bag pipes. He traced it further back to the vikings and was into that and made his own mead. He was also a trained sushi chef that was very into the traditional stuff. He made sushi for my wife and I and it was some of the best that we'd ever had, and we've had some amazing sushi. He was also in a Rockabilly band.

Almost a week ago, his wife posted on his facebook account that he was in ICU on a ventilator with covid pneumonia. There were one or two days where things looked up, then they looked down. This morning she posted that he passed away last night. I was curious, but didn't ask if he'd been vaxed. Another buddy that still works with him thinks it's unlikely, and that wouldn't surprise me.

I'm pretty sure that his daughter is 12-14.

2021 is shaping up to be a bit of a downer. Earlier this year, my old Aikido teacher passed. He reminded me a bit of one of my grandfathers. It was sad but not surprising as he had pretty advanced COPD. I think he lived a lot longer than had been predicted.

A coworker, one of the nicest guys I'd ever met, who moved his family from India to Houston was taken by cancer too.

I guess this is the kind of thing that happens as you get older and stay in one place.