I am so sad.  I will miss our long conversations until your cell phone died; I will miss your playfulness, wit, humor, and your opinions often unsolicited, like the time you told me if I would just gain back the weight I had lost I would regain my mental acuity.  I scrambled to dig up pictures ffrom the 70's forward, scanned and sent them as evidence that I had never had the weight to lose.  I then realized that you had known me for 6 years and you also knew that.  I can still see you smiling in front of your computer screen.  I will miss your advice; I will miss having someone who was always willing to listen to my complaints and troubles; I will miss your tenacious defense of your opinions when I attempted to change them; I will miss your double entendres;  I will somehwat miss your amazing vocabulary but, I won't miss having to keep a dictonary by my computer to look up those words in your email; I will miss your undaunted support for your clients..  But most of all I will simply miss you.

     Your Friend,

                                                                                                                                 Clark Wood