It's a sad day today. Once upon a time that was the name of one of our Water Cooler threads (you can only see it if you're logged in to the site). We used it when we had to talk about things to do for someone in the group when they lost someone close to them.

Today, though, absolutely sucks, and is a very sad day indeed.

If you ever participated in the park pick pool, you knew him. If you ever came to a Pre-Dig Gig, you walked past him at the front door (unless you came in at the far end of Joseph's banquet room, and consequently missed out meeting a hell of a guy). If you ever got a bump out in the park at 2am, you met him. Heck if you were ever out in a prk hunting, you probably met him.

He is the reason the site is draped in black today.

On Monday morning, we lost Clue Master.

I'm beyond broken over it. To say Me2 is beyond broken is an understatement. The man was one of my best friends in the world. I've been contemplating for the last several months what I'd say when they got married. It'll be a funeral speech now instead.

It was a call we all knew would come one day. Realistically, we all know that call will come for ourselves some day. Monday was not supposed to be that day. That day wasn't supposed to happen for many many years.

Here we are though. He had so much life ahead of him. We were gearing up for January's treasure hunt. He never missed one. We would get his scooter loaded up into someone's vehicle and head on out to a park, and unload it when we got there. He had the easiest time of all of us on his "four wheel drive" scooter.

Man, for someone who was so well loved, and who loved everybody, for someone who I have so many great memories with, you'd think writing something like this would be easy. It isn't.

There isn't anything about this that even resembles easy, and as much as I want to, I just can't.

That said, its also hard on the family. Cluey didn't have any life insurance, and funerals aren't in the least cheap. As a result, we have a Go Fund Me set up to collect donations to help pay for his final expenses. Click here if you're able to donate anything. There will also be a silent auction fundraiser coming soon as well. I'll post details here about it and a funeral when they're finalized.