June 16, 2004
Like a Lead Pipe Upside the Head
Today, just as I was about to shut down my computer at work, I happened to take one last look at the various servers under my watch. I typically have the output of certain logs tailed out to the screen so that I can hopefully notice anything odd happening. This evening, what I noticed, was:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [16/Jun/2004:00:47:02 -0500] "GET /eblo/mikey.html HTTP/1.1" 200 14658 "http://www.pernick.org/piyasjournal/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSN 2.5; Windows 98; YComp 5.0.2.4)"
Someone was browsing my Michael A. Massing Memorial Page, which isn't altogether uncommon, but usually folks are refered by a search engine or one of my other web pages. This hit, however, came from someone else's journal.
Though I wanted to get home, I was intrigued and decided to look up the referring page. What I read brought back all of the emotions I went through the horrible day I found out about Mike's death. This person, Piya, or whoever, seems to have known Mikey fairly well in college (U of I, where Mike did his graduate work) and just heard about his passing today. Reading it almost made me feel like he died all over again.
Posted by oblivion at June 16, 2004 09:18 PM | Technorati Tags:Well...it's been almost 6 months now. The terrible lump that has been in the back of my throat for quite some time now is beginning to pull on my heart strings once again. I have been writing a letter to Mike since February, and I hope to finish it to send it to his parents in January. For those of you who knew Mike like I did, it's hard to believe that such an amazing and incredible life is no longer with us. It is people like Mike that give us the hope that one day all will be right in the world...for it is his smile and his personality that light up any room, and can make anyone, no matter how foul their mood, smile. I have been trying to find out information on the coward that caused the accident, but I have found no news about it. If anyone sees or hears anything, please let me know. For now, I have my memories and the pictures to remind me of how wonderful Mike truly was. Since I know he can see us all as we still mourn this loss, I hope he knows how much I and I am sure we all truly loved him.
Posted by: Erin Boxt at July 25, 2004 08:36 AM
