Category: family

Heather has a nice page up on ways to Honor Patrick’s Memory. I watched Project A last week, so I’ve got one point covered, at least.

NJEDL Remembers Patrick D. Huey

Happy birthday, Pat.

I just posted some old pictures of my brother Pat. Here they are. These are from 1984 or thereabouts. I like these. Most of them are pretty goofy, but it looks like we were having a good time.

Patrick’s service was Friday night. It went well, with a whole lot of people attending. I barely made it in time, though, due to some really bad traffic on 287 and the Parkway. I may also be in trouble with a few people, since I managed to misidentify a few relatives, in one case mistaking someone for her mother. Oops. At least I remembered to bring the prayer cards.

Heather posted a link to a fairly lengthy, and surprisingly accurate, obit in the Ledger that ran yesterday. Her web site was mentioned, which probably upped her hit count a bit, and elicited a number of comments in her guest book. Browsing through those, I noticed one from Pat’s childhood friend, Frank Gural, who I hadn’t thought about in years. I remember that Pat was friends with Frank and his twin brother, whose name I can’t quite remember. (Maybe Joe?)

I noticed the hit count for my page going up a bit in the last few days too, probably due to people clicking on the “Andy Huey” link on heatherandpatrick.com. This kind of made me feel like I needed to post something intelligent. This is the best I can do for now. It still hasn’t completely sunk in yet that I won’t be able to ask him if he liked the Crisis on Infinite Earths comic that I gave him for Christmas, or talk to him about Return of the King, or ask him for help on Neverwinter Nights, or any of that stuff. I won’t be able to tell him to check out Philip Pullman’s books. I won’t be able to ask him questions about setting up PHP and Movable Type. I won’t be able to roll my eyes and groan at all the cutesy cat stuff on his web page…

My brother Patrick passed away this morning. If you would like to make a memorial donation to the American Cancer Society in his name, go here.

I’ve purposely been avoiding posting anything about my brother. I just hope he gets better. I’ve been spending a bunch of my spare time reading comics, browsing tech stuff on the web, and playing Simpsons Hit & Run, just to distract myself from thinking about it too much. I’ve probably spent way more time playing around with my new cell phone than is really warranted. And I’ve been looking at specs on new laptops, even though I probably won’t be buying one any time soon. And I made chili yesterday, and chocolate chip cookies on Sunday.