**Sniff**

It irks and bothers me that misunderstanding, on both our parts, kept us from shooting the shit for X number of years, like we had on a regular basis prior. Though we touched base after the misunderstanding was cleared up, we didn't get back into the groove we had before, which could have been smoothed over I'm quite sure...had we had the time.

A lot of people loathed his web persona, which made them loathe him in real life.

That comment is going somewhere in just a second.

I looked forward to our talks, which I miss and missed. I would have like to have met up one last time over some drinks and a good long bullshit session. I remember making him laugh until he choked and yelled, "God damnit!", on a regular basis before our snafu.

As to the web persona comment above. While I have many friends, friends I consider close, that I've made and still have from the Monsters/Real Radio days, Darth was the only one, prior to our misunderstanding, and then started again after it cleared up, who would shoot the shit with me when I called, or call me to shoot the shit on a regular basis. With the exception of EKG who has talked my ears off over the years, and me likewise, all of the people who consider me a close friend, who speak of me in close terms...he was the only one who made the effort to pick up the phone and call, like EKG, or pick up the phone when I called and not give me the sense that I was intruding or bothering.

I'll always regret that I wasn't more aggressive when our communication fell off, as to why it did...especially when it was something that was so easily fixed with a few words. Those were years I lost, that weren't made up for, even when things were cleared up.

That made sense in my fuck'in head.