Today would have been our 15th anniversary. You are, and always will be, missed!
I saw this on the ZappBots Forums today and remembered that it was never posted here. Something to share with you all. In April of 2015 Parallax put out a challenge for employees (and their families) to decorate the chassis of our most popular robot platform. Continue reading
Today is Wendy’s birthday. She would have been 46. I was trying to find a photo to put up for the occasion. Somehow this one caught my attention. I know Wendy would choose this photo out of her inappropriate sense of humor. So in her honor…
Christmas was another big holiday for Wendy. She had tons of tree decorations and stuff she put up around the house. I didn’t get any of it out this year. Let’s step back for a moment to earlier this year…
I met a woman in September who changed my life. She changed my life in that, I really didn’t expect to fall for anyone again. I didn’t expect to be in a romantic relationship again. I thought that if I did it would be much later in life. I just felt like so much had happened over the years and moving on was not possible. But that’s what Wendy wanted and this woman I met not only respects the situation I am in, but has an appreciation for what I had in my life with Wendy.
This year she made Christmas dinner on my birthday and we celebrated both with some of her family and Joe, Josh and Megan. We didn’t take any photos, unfortunately. However it was a great time and I am still cleaning up glitter from glitter bombs!
Like the recent Halloween holiday, Thanksgiving will once again be strange as, once again this was a holiday for decorations and food that Wendy would prepare for the family.
This year Josh and Megan invited me to have Thanksgiving Dinner at her parent’s house. I had already made arrangements to have Joe go there as I had previously found he was spending it alone as well. It was a great evening with good people and company! Continue reading
I haven’t posted in a while. But today seems like a good day to post something since Halloween was one of Wendy’s favorite holidays. She always had the house decorated and she always wore her traditional witch outfit. The last few years she wasn’t as into the holiday because of her health and we didn’t give out candy to the local children. Instead we watched Halloween movies with the lights turned down low and then turned in.
Bucket of Halloween Candy
Ken Gracey, President of Parallax Inc recently went on a nature hike and had Wendy on his mind. At some point he set up this nature memorial to Wendy. Note the “W” made from the rocks. Thanks Ken! That was very thoughtful.
Here’s something Wendy didn’t really talk about much, but I thought some of you might find it interesting. Wendy had many, as she called them, guilty pleasures. One such guilty pleasure was playing World of Warcraft. Now if you’re not familiar with the game, it is an MMORPG, which stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. Now, before I continue I want to share the very funny story of how she started playing the game. Continue reading
At one point I was looking through Wendy’s filing cabinet next to her desk for anything related to the current bills and medical stuff. I opened the drawer on the top and found her extra check book registers, postage stamps and return address labels. But underneath were three envelopes. They had my name, Josh and Joey’s names, respectively. It seems Wendy had left a letter to each of us. Continue reading
Many people don’t know the story of how we met and all the various things that we’ve done. I thought I would share some of that here with you all. Some of you might learn things about Wendy you didn’t know. Continue reading
