Friends
This page is reserved for some of my favorite people in the world. Some of my friends are camera shy or internet shy so they choose to not be on this page for one reason or another. It isn't because I don't care about them. The friends that you see on this page are a mixture of friends that I get to talk to on a regular and semi-regular basis and those who I have lost contact with over the years for one reason or another but I would love to find them so if you know them tell them about this page. They can reach me at my email address emorrow@gmail.com
Ryan aka The Deak
This
is my friend Ryan who is also often referred to as Deak, or The Deak. I
first met Ryan through my son Rob. They worked together at a place called
NTS in Pekin
Illinois.
At that time Ryan was a beginning C++ programmer and my son told Ryan that
I could write C++ code and so introductions were set up where Ryan politely
asked me if it would be ok if he "picked my brain" from time to
time and I assured him that was just fine. I am happy to say that through
Ryan's massive multi player MUD project and the classes he has taken that
he has developed into a very capable C++ programmer and one of my most trusted
colleagues.
In fact, I often chat with Ryan and run ideas by him to get his opinion.
Who is picking who's brain now! :) Ryan hangs out in Pekin, Illinois.
Meredith aka greeneyedtexasrose
This
is Meredith, the green eyed Texas rose. I met Meredith in North
Richland Hills, Texas on a warm summer day. I was in the driveway working
on my 1967 Chevrolet
Camero Rally Sport when I heard this vixen hollerin' at me from the
street. We hit it off right away and we had a lot of good times together.
It turned out that Meredith
lived just around the corner from my brother George and I so there was
a period of time when Meredith and I saw a lot of each other. Most of the
time we hung out at my house and listened to music or watched movies. It
was a good time and I remember it all fondly.
I remember one time when I had a very bad toothache and refused to call
a dentist. The pain was horrible and nothing I did was helping. Meredith
called a dentist and set up the appointment for me and told me that I was
going whether I wanted to or not. She was a take charge kinda girl. I went
and the dentist pulled the tooth and the pain was gone.
I remember another time when my Camaro had a mechanical break down and I
needed to replace the flywheel and couldn't afford the part and Meredith
loaned me the money for it. She was a lifesaver! Meredith is good people
and I feel lucky to have had her in my life.
A friend of mine started dragging me out to night clubs with him and Meredith
and I didn't see each other very often after that. It eventually became
necessary for me to leave Texas and the night before I left, Meredith came
to see me and brought her brand new baby boy, Daniel. He was a handsome
little guy.
I lost contact with this beauty until just recently when she found me on
MySpace of all places which led her
to this web site where she found my email addresses and sent an email to
all of them! :) I am glad that she found me. Meredith lives in Texas with
her 3 children and husband.
Daniel aka Boshek
This
is Daniel Good aka BoShek. Daniel is a very good friend from Adelaide,
Australia. I met Daniel on an IRC
server named irc-2.mit.edu that was located at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT).
We first met because of a common acquaintance, a woman who went by the nick
Kelda. Daniel and I became friends and enjoyed creating and comparing our
IRC bots
that could be controlled using Client
To Client Protocol (CTCP). It was a lot of fun and very educational
too. After some issues with certain individuals on the MIT server, Daniel,
Sharon, Dimi, and
I met on some less busy servers and hung out in Daniel's channel #cantina.
Daniel went on a great Australian expedition from his home in Adelaide,
thru Melbourne and
on to Sydney.
While he was in Melbourne
he got to meet Dimi
and I was so envious of him.
I don't get to talk to Daniel as often these days as I would like to but
I will always consider him to be one of my best friends. Daniel met his
wife, Sharon aka Rainbow, on IRC.
She is from Singapore
and she was living there at the time that they met and fell in love. So
who says internet romance can't work? Daniel, Sharon and their daughter
Nikki now reside together in Adelaide.
Rob T. aka Garff69 aka Johnny Bravo
This
is Rob Thornhill aka Johnny Bravo. Rob is definitely my oldest friend. I
have known Rob since he was 14, and I was 16. We have been through a lot
together.
I remember one incident in particular when Rob and I were riding a dirt-bike
(motorcycle) around town on the streets and we met an oncoming funeral procession
on its way to a nearby cemetery. The last car in the procession was a local
police officer. I had not been paying attention and didn't realize that
anything was amiss until I felt the motorcycle rapidly accelerating, which
caused me to look and see the police officer, who had pulled into a nearby
driveway to turn around so he could begin pursuit of us on the illegal motorcycle.
We were in full flight as we made too wide of left turn that caused us to
go down into a ditch and then up on a berm and back down into the ditch
and eventually back onto the road. We were 3/4 of the way down the street
and I looked behind us to see the police officer miss the road we were on
and stop and back up to continue pursuit. We slowed down a little to take
the sharp right turn and then accelerated as we rode the motorcycle back
behind a house that was close to the local high school practice football
field. We stood there for a couple minutes debating whether the police officer
would come back there. I said he wouldn't, but Rob said he would. Rob was
right and as soon as I glimpsed the black and white squad car with the red
light bar on top I was running down the hill through a heavily wooded area
with no trail. I heard Rob yell for me to slow down and wait for him but
I wasn't waiting. So Rob decided to get on the motorcycle and coast it down
the hill. I slowed down long enough to turn around and look and see Rob
lodge the motorcycle between a fork in two trees and when the motorcycle
suddenly stopped and he didn't; I saw him doing somersaults in the air until
he crash landed in some trees, bushes and leaves. I ran back up and helped
him get the motorcycle and push it the rest of the way down the hill where
we ditched it behind a strange guys house but we knocked on the door and
told the guy that we had run out of gas and that we were leaving the motorcycle
and would be back for it if that was ok. The guy was cool and let us leave
it there. Rob and I walked down the street and Rob was carrying the helmet
when we saw no less than four squad cars patrolling the neighborhood looking
for us. One of the squad cars pulled up and asked us if we had seen two
guys on a motorcycle and we said no, and the officer asked Rob what he was
doing with that helmet and he told the officer that he had just bought it
from one of his friends and was taking it home. The police officer knew
we were the culprits he was looking for but he couldn't prove it without
the motorcycle so we were allowed to leave. They later made Rob pay for
our escapades when they caught him riding the motorcycle on a levee (but
not without a chase) and issued him 12 traffic tickets and impounded the
motorcycle.
Rob and I lived together in Texas for a spell. It was a wild time for sure.
Rob and I share an affection for 3D First Person Shooting games played on
the internet. We spent many hours playing Unreal,
Unreal Tournament,
Counter-Strike,
Return
To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and other games. It is always
fun. I look forward to many more hours of making him feel the pain :) Rob
is from East
Peoria, Illinois.
Holly aka Hollywood
This
is Holly Frye (Geer) aka Hollywood. Holly is an angel that I met in Texas.
She was the best friend anyone could wish for. She was there for me when
I needed someone to be there. We were each other's crutch and I love her
forever.
Holly and I used to take road trips down to Galveston
Island just to hang out on the beach. We always had a blast no matter
where we went or what we were doing, as long as we were together. We were
practically inseparable for quite a while. In fact we were so tight that
one of her ex-boyfriends accused us of being lovers even though it wasn't
true, he just didn't know any better.
After I left Texas and returned to Illinois, Holly flew in to the O'Hare
airport in Chicago to see me. She called me from the airport to come get
her... unfortunately Chicago was about a four hour drive from where I lived
and Holly had to wait at the airport for me to show up. I finally found
her and we went and had lunch and then she flew back to Dallas/Ft.
Worth. I should have kidnapped her!
For the record, I would not trade a second of the time we spent together
for any amount of money or opportunity. I've never met her husband Mark,
but they have been married for a long time so he must make her happy, and
that makes him uberkewl in my world. They have 2 beautiful children and
I wish them all the very best that life has to offer. I lost touch with
Holly for a long time but thanks to my web site we found each other after
almost 20 years. Holly is from Haltom
City, Texas.
Elaine aka ACE-Wench
This
is Elaine aka ACE-Wench. Elaine is a new friend from the great state of
Texas. I met Elaine while playing the online 3D first person shooter game
America's Army. Don't underestimate
this pretty lady, in game she's vicious and she definitely doesn't take
any prisoners. Elaine is a member of the ACE gaming clan, hence the ACE
before her nick.
She has a great sense of humor and we always have a blast playing. She is
always cutting up and often has everyone on the teamspeak server laughing
thier asses off. The only bad thing about playing with Elaine is that I
never want to stop playing when I really should (like on school nights,
playing till 4 am isn't the smartest thing in the world).
Most of the time when we play, we are on the ACE
clan server, playing Floodgate, Extraction, Rummage, Hospital SE or
one of the other kewl maps in the game. If you look into her eyes, you'll
see that mischevious twinkle and knowing grin... I imagine this is probably
pretty close to the same look she has on her face when bags another kill
and serves up some clam dip to the poor sucker she tagged. Yea, I am pretty
sure that I've been on the other end of that expression a few times. :)
Elaine lives in the Lone Star state with her daughter.
Dimi aka Princess
This
is Dimitra Jason (Karatepelis) aka Princess. Dimi stole my heart and rocked
my world on an IRC
server named irc-2.mit.edu. The server was located at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. I miss Dimi more than she can know.
She was my closest and dearest friend and confidant for years. During this
period in my life there were people who thought I was nuts, anti-social,
and a hermit. There is a huge time gap between US Central Time and the Time
Zone in Melbourne, Australia.
So when most of the US was asleep, I was awake and chatting with Dimi on
IRC, and
I would go to bed a few hours after the rest of the US had awoken for their
day.
When we weren't spending time together chatting on IRC
, we were using a program called FreeTel, a voice over IP application, to
talk to each other over the internet just like we would on the telephone,
which saved us huge amounts of cash because international calling from the
US to Australia was very expensive at the time. Dimi recently contacted
me after she found this page! It was truly wonderful to hear from her after
7 years. During that period of time Dimi got married and built a new home
with her husband Chris. That guy is one lucky bloke! Dimi is from the Footscray
area of Melbourne Australia.
Valerie aka MissZappa
This
is Valerie Court aka Senorita Zappa. Like many of my friends I met Zappa
on MIT's irc-2 IRC
server. Zappa used to frequent the channels #chatzone, #gemini, and #woohoo.
At the time Valerie was brand new to the online world and was truly the
definition of NOOB. She was always pestering me with questions about how
to do this, or why don't this work for me, or how can someone do this and
I am sure that most of the time when I was explaining stuff to her she was
only half listening and the other half was thinking "Oh great! More
techy stuff", but with a little guidance, her glittering charm and
personality soon won the hearts of many people on the server including me.
I lost touch with Valerie for a long time, but after doing a search for
me by name and including the search term IRC,
she found this site and me. I am glad she did. Valerie supplied me with
this web cam pic and I am happy that she did, but a better quality pic of
her lovely face would be wonderful. If only she would quit LOLOLOLing about
and get me a better pic already! Valerie hails from Mass, but resides in
Daytona Beach,
Florida with her 3 children.
Annette aka ANUT4U
This
is Annette Jemiolo aka ANUT4U. Annette is another of my friends that I met
on MIT's irc-2 IRC
server. Annette is one of the first people I befriended on that IRC
server. Annette hung out in the channels #giggles, and #chatzone. She was
always waggling her tongue at me which never failed to start my laughter.
She tried to teach me how to flirt with girls in french, but my french skills
still suck today. This is not a reflection upon Annette as a teacher but
upon me as her student. I enjoyed it but it did not hold a very high priority
in my life at the time. I was too busy learning how to be a script kiddie.
Annette and her daughters Ange-Marie aka SMASH, Rose-Mai, and Julie-Anne
kept me in stitches and were my most awesome friends for a long time. Annette
and her husband Jeff are another example that internet relationships can
work. Annette and Jeff aka Bee met on MIT's IRC
server also. Annette lived in Canada with her daughters and Jeff lived in
the USA. They talked on the IRC
server and then decided to date and then Jeff took Annette with him on a
2 week long tour of a good portion of the US. That trip sealed the deal
and they decided to get married. Annette and Jeff currently live in Southeastern
US.
Cindy aka LifeLongJourney
This spot is reserved for my good friend Cindy. I am sure that she provided me with at least 1 pic, but I can't seem to find it at the moment so I'll keep looking or maybe ask her for some more.
Colleen aka Leeny
This
lovely lady is Colleen aka Leeny. I first met Leeny on irc-2.mit.edu. Yea
she is another IRC
friend! When I first met Leeny, she was using the nick Silvagurl and before
that she went by Cattz if I remember correctly.
It has been a minute since I talked to her. After the MIT IRC
server was taken down I ran into Leeny on x86's IRC
server in #shellshark and we chatted there from time to time and then she
came and hung out with me on my IRC
server until my net fell down when my static IP address was rudely taken
away by the company that I was tunneled in to.
The last I heard about Leeny is that she had moved to Florida to be with
her boyfriend Dan. So if any of you know Colleen tell her about this page
and hopefully she can send me an email. Colleen hails from Bawston Massachusetts
(Boston)
but currently lives somewhere in Florida.
Missing and Missed Friends
This section of my friends page is dedicated to finding lost friends. Life happens and people go their separate ways, but sometimes those people had such an impact on your life that you just don't want to say goodbye forever. The following list of people belong in that category for me and I would love to find them and say Hi again. So far my web site has been doing a wonderful job of finding lost friends so let's see if we can find some more!
Lisa Dutton
Lisa was a heart throb of mine when I was a young man. She had 3 brothers, Randy, Doug and Danny. I met Lisa when I was working the counter at McDonald's. She used to come into the restaurant at night with her friend Cindy Hardin. She smiled at me one time and I was in love. If anyone knows Lisa or one of her brothers, tell them I've been looking for them.
James & Heather White
James and Heather were and always will be my very very good friends. I lost contact with them many years ago, but I think about them and miss them alot. The last time I saw them was when they lived in an apartment complex in Peoria, Illinois, but I have been told that they moved since then back to the East side of the river. If anyone knows James or Heather, tell them about this page please.
Terry Sutter and Cindy Guthrie
Terry and Cindy were my most awesome friends for a long time and I can honestly say that I would not be the person I am today if it weren't for their friendship. The last I heard Terry was a correctional officer and Cindy was working at Avanti's. If anyone knows Terry or Cindy, tell them to get a hold of me
Terry Kalb
Terry Kalb is another of my oldest friends. We grew up together in East Peoria, Illinois and since he was the only Terry Kalb I ever knew in EP, I don't think I need to go into a lot detail about the last time I saw him. But somehow I have lost contact with this good friend and I would like to know if he is ok, so if you know Terry and talk to him regularly, tell him you saw this on my web page and to email or call me!
David Mulligan
David Mulligan had a very big impact on my life and the events that led to who I am today. There was a time when I felt that I had no where to go and no one to turn to and David was there for me. He took me in and let me live and work with him. He also taught me Tae Kwon Do. He was my mentor and friend and I'd really like to know how he is doing. If you know David, tell him you saw this and to get in touch with me.