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Guilty...I have been cruising on ebay, and spending up a storm...

My dad really was a scream and joker...my friends thought he was the greatest guy alive...they just loved him...when he died, I got tons and tons of cards from my old childhood friends, mourning his passing...

Dad always enjoyed little kids and teens more than he enjoyed most adults...he found most adults to be stody, and set in their ways, and too grim...he really enjoyed the exhuberance and spontaneity of the young people...

All my friends called him 'Pa'...to all the little toddlers and smaller kids, he was 'Uncle Jack', even tho he wasnt their real uncle...and to my kids and kids of their generation he was 'Pop-pop', even tho he wasnt their grandfather...he really was a very unique, eccentric, funny fellow, who loved life and lived it to its fullest...

When he died, I remember going through his things, and finding his notebooks full of plans for future projects, and some projects just begun, and not yet finished....I mentioned to Andy how sad it was that he died, never having finished up what he wanted to do...

Andy always said, "Mom, Pop-Pop could have lived to be 100, and he still would have not finished all his projects"...so true...