I've been attempting to generate some kind of significant thoughts about Craigisms for hours now…but I'm just numb…my mind has that term that Craig & I never really understood in school…entropy.  A randomness that defies logic.  Maybe I do understand entropy now.  Anyway…a significant memory finally entered my void cerebellum.  Not only memories, but burnt-in visuals.

Sometime around February 1980, months after Craig's old girlfriend dumped him (go figure…that girl must've had problems), Craig started talking about this girl in the Monsanto Credit Union.  Craig said she seems to be gawking at him a lot.  I told him to ask her out.  The shy boy didn't.  One day as Spring approached in 1980, this girl walked down our hallway…a lower level hallway in the Phosphates Front Office Engineering Building…a path where no Credit Union person would EVER have to travel.  As the girl walked by our office, her head was looking 90 degrees into our office.  As soon as Craig & I looked up, her head snapped back forward…pretending the casual visual encounter never took place.  I have to chuckle here….Craig asked why would she be walking down our hallway??  My response to Craig…actually, my ONLY response to Craig, was……Duuuuuuhhhhhh!!!

Craig and the girl started dating shortly after that "chance" walkby.  In months, Craig & the girl were engaged to be married.  I asked Craig was he sure…he said he was.  Something he just knew.  In October 1980, Craig and Shelly married.

I'll never forget how fast Shelly's head snapped back when Craig glanced up that day in February.  Weird for a guy to say this…but...it was "cute".  I'll also never forget how fast Craig's response was that Shelly was the "one".

28 years.  34 for me.  A person is never really gone while there are still memories.  Especially the abyssfull Craig has created for us.

Nas Drovia Skol.  Always…as I point up towards the sky.  Take care buddy, Randy, Dorean, Rebecca, and Adam