{"id":6688,"date":"2022-08-22T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2022-08-22T12:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:42:27","slug":"here-we-go-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=6688","title":{"rendered":"Here we go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lori and I remember the kids first day of school some 15 years ago or so. I think we had a party almost every year they started school. Today both boys are in college. Hard to believe when you really think about it. Best of luck to both of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday after the gym and some work around here, Marty and I hit the range. Afterwards Lori made us a great dinner and then Marty and I washed the entire outside windows on the house. He used to wash windows in college and showed me the trick. I can&#8217;t believe what a difference it makes. They&#8217;re so clear it&#8217;s like they aren&#8217;t even there. It&#8217;s been a good year since they were washed, and it cost us at least $500 last time. We knocked out the outside in about 30 minutes. A big thank you to Marty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 9pm my phone rang, and a friend called to tell me our close friend of 20 years, killed himself yesterday. Eric was the son of the original CFO of Microsoft. I&#8217;ve talked about him before as Eric was an eccentric guy who raced vintage cars in Europe and traveled the World taking pictures of various places. He was socially awkward but a great guy. He recently sold his place in downtown Vail for $20 million. He told me he was thinking of moving to London for a while. We were sort of shocked but that was Eric. I was thinking of him yesterday as I saw a book on Porsche 911&#8217;s when in a store with Lori and it made me think of him. Eric had an extensive library of books on cars as he loved them, and I have a few that he loaned me. He collected Ferrari&#8217;s, Porsches&#8217;, Alfa Romero&#8217;s, and more. They were spread all around the Country in different storage facilities. I won&#8217;t go into details as it doesn&#8217;t matter but it&#8217;s so sad. His dad, John is flying in today. We were talking the past couple years about taking his dads plane and taking a trip to Europe. This is not just a plane but a commercial airliner, I think it&#8217;s a Boeing 757. Wish we would have known how he was struggling as we all would have reached out. I did text him a couple weeks ago but it was normal not to hear from him for a month or so. May God Bless him and take care of him and provide him peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make it a great day and cherish life. No matter how bad things are, they aren&#8217;t that bad! I promise. God Bless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lori and I remember the kids first day of school some 15 years ago or so. I think we had a party almost every year they started school. Today both boys are in college. Hard to believe when you really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=6688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}