Today Douglas Adams would have been 61. He passed away on my birthday (May 11) in 2001. I will always remember the day I found out. It was some time past May 11 and I was at a Creeper Lagoon show with Amanda S. We were talking to one of the musicians from Creeper and having a coherent conversation. It seemed to me as if out of nowhere this guy spouts out, "Douglas Adams in dead"! Obviously something spurred this thought but I was too shocked with his comment to think of anything other than finding out the truth. That evening I verified the sad truth. Douglas Adams was dead. I can never listen to Creeper without thinking of one of my favorite authors. Maybe that's not a bad thing. (Google honored D.A. with a Doodle today).
I find it fitting that today my mantra is, "Don't Panic". I have a couple of deadlines in the next 24 hours so I will repeat this to myself until I'm done. But as always, we're never really done at the deadline, so I part with this quote, a dear Douglas Adams favorite...
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
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