Thoughts and/or Prayers for a Friend

[deirdre]

If you have any thoughts and prayers to spare, @LizardSF would love to have some for his wife. She’s in the ICU. (That’s all he’s said on Twitter, so that’s all I’m going to say.)

Lizard’s my ex (we lived together in NYC and Raleigh, NC), and, when Rick and I met his wife Beth, I could see that she fit him in ways I never did. (Not the first time. Once I bowed out of a relationship.)

Back in 1999, I was living in Irvine, working in Torrance (for Honda), and had a job interview at Apple. I wrote on a technical mailing list for the (San Francisco) Bay Area wondering if anyone wanted to go to dinner. Rick volunteered to pick me up at the airport, and I said okay.

Rick asked, “How do you know I’m not an axe murderer?”

Good point.

So I called up the only person I knew in the Bay Area at that point, Lizard.

“Oh, Rick? He’s our network guy.”

I went to dinner with the both of them, and moved to the bay area a few months later. Not long after that, Lizard met Beth.

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