Goodbye, dad. I love you a lot a lot a lot.

Bruce Lenmark Zielsdorf was born in Eu Claire, Wisconsin on November 12th, 1940. He died in Olympia, Washington on May 5th, 2008. 67 is too young, though he accomplished a lot in that time. This blog, commandeered by his son Max, is going to explore some of those accomplishments, mostly through people's memories of having known him.

I'm currently going through his stuff with my mom. She wants to do some of it by herself, which is totally understandable, so I'm taking care of the things I can. Namely, cleaning our his email inbox. He was a somewhat cluttered man, and if it hadn't been for my mom's meticulousness, he may well have descended to squalor. So as I sift through 12 thousand mostly useless emails I'm feeling a little creepy. Like I'm looking through his eyes, seeing the things he saw everyday.

I told him I loved him about a billion times, but it couldn't have been enough. It's only been a day and a half, and I miss the bejeezus out of him already.

More to come soon. I promise it won't only be sad. I have a lot of funny, exciting, weird, sweet stories. This is the way I know to celebrate him.

=Max