RIP Big Brother
Many of my personal experiences, particularly sad moments I have refrained from blogging about. But knowing that my brother not only loved the Internet, but also that he had checked out my websites over the years I really felt this one was important. I said good-bye to my oldest brother William Francis Buffington Jr. today, or Bill as we all knew him.
I will never forget you Bill. I will always remember you and Janet coming over on Halloween night when I was a kid, the whole family gathering on Christmas at your home on Christmas night, Summer weekends at the cottage in East Berlin when I was a teenager and all our hardcore badminton matches. You, Steve Fritz and I going fishing and us rarely catching anything, except a laugh from one us doing something goofy (Usually Steve and his duct taped rods).
I remember you introducing me to computers and letting me play on them at your home starting when I was very young. Playing with computers hooked to your TV with a cassette tape drive in the late 1970s or early 1980s all the way to playing games on your Apple or IBM computer in the early 1980s. I decided to work in the Information Technology field because I wanted to be like my big brother.
You were more outspoken than me and although we perhaps did not always see eye to eye, I loved you dearly and I had hoped we had many more years together. I always thought you were one of the most intelligent people I had ever been associated with and envied you. Like dad, you left us far too young. Perhaps this is the crutch of being the youngest sibling, I felt I lost dad and mom too soon and now you are gone too, much too soon.
You and Janet were like second parents to me when I was kid and I often revisit all those happy memories. I love you and I will miss you big brother. Not a day will pass where I will not wish I could relive some of our moments together and I hope you knew how much you meant to me.
