Cheers good buddy!

Today is the service for our buddy Rick.  It's going to be difficult.

I didn't really post what happened, so I'm cross-posting a message left on Rick's wall by his friend Lee:

I am afraid I have some very sad news to share with you all.

Early  morning July 1st, after spending a night of celebrating with close friends, Rick fell from a partition outside his apartment, striking his head. The partition was only 3 feet high, but the blow was hard enough to kill him instantly.

It is sad and shocking and terribly difficult to comprehend, but we can at the very least take some comfort in knowing that his last memory was of having a wonderful time with a few of his closest and dearest friends. If he had had any choice in how he was to leave this world, that is exactly how he would have wanted it.