John McClure was my wife’s uncle, and he passed away the other night. He’d actually passed away a few days before, but they brought most of him back, at least for a time. EJ and I went down to be with his wife Aly as she said goodbye.
I knew John for less than a decade all told, but you only needed a minute to get his measure. John was one of the good ones. He’d give you a hand in a second, and never give you grief for having gotten yourself in trouble to start with. He was a low key guy, dependable, honest, and a lot of fun in the bargain.
[/amazon_link]In a clear case of the shoemaker’s children, I’ve been living with a pretty crude connection between my media PC and my sound system. The PC itself is an old HP Pavilion that died and got resurrected with a new copy of Windows 7 Home Pro and a new power supply. As far as serving up media and surfing the web, its 4 GB ram and 2.4GHz processor keep up with most anything I ask of it. The audio outputs on the back however, don’t do justice to the sound from either videos or mp3s, and since I’ve ripped every CD we own onto it, I really should have done something about that a while ago.