Comments for 5 happiness blogmaster http://www.5happy.com/blahg four more than the competition! Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:16:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on the dunk… was? is? by jkeenan http://www.5happy.com/blahg/2010/05/22/the-dunk-was-is/comment-page-1/#comment-33 jkeenan Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:16:50 +0000 http://www.5happy.com/blahg/?p=137#comment-33 Bruce, Thank you for those kind words about Duncan. The most recent information I have about Duncan comes from a phone call with his sister Susan on Thanksgiving Day 2009. At least as of that time he was alive and living in a residential treatment program for people with traumatic brain injuries in the Lexington KY area. As you noted, Duncan moved to Kentucky from California in late 2001. His older brother had been the first to relocate to Kentucky and Duncan had lived there for some short spells in the 1990s. His mother relocated there when she retired from the Civil Service in New York City. His sister, who for many years had lived in Oakland, had just relocated back to New York City at the time of his March 2002 auto accident. I visited him in Lexington less than three weeks before that accident. He had begun looking for employment again and things were looking up. You probably know something about the accident from reading his brother's blog. Since a blog is a public posting, I'm not going to post a lot of medical details here. Suffice it to say that Duncan has made slow but tangible progress on both the brain injury and physical injury fronts. His sister relocated to Kentucky; without the help of his family Duncan would have been dead long ago. His mother passed away in December 2006. But his brother fell in love with one of his physical therapists, married her in 2007 and had a child. I last visited Duncan in June 2009. If I remember correctly, that was my fifth visit since the accident. He's certainly doing better than he was in 2002. Duncan was a co-worker at two type shops in New York City beginning in 1982 and was my best friend still living in New York City up through the time he first moved to the Bay Area in 1991. He then was my roommate in Brooklyn for two periods in the early 1990s. He was the first person to show me the Internet -- Grateful Dead set lists in 1993 -- and the first person to get me in to the Perl programming language, which ultimately became my career. So, like you, Duncan set me on my current course in life. And for that I will be eternally grateful. By private email I will let you know how you might try to reach Duncan. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan Bruce,

Thank you for those kind words about Duncan.

The most recent information I have about Duncan comes from a phone call with his sister Susan on Thanksgiving Day 2009. At least as of that time he was alive and living in a residential treatment program for people with traumatic brain injuries in the Lexington KY area.

As you noted, Duncan moved to Kentucky from California in late 2001. His older brother had been the first to relocate to Kentucky and Duncan had lived there for some short spells in the 1990s. His mother relocated there when she retired from the Civil Service in New York City. His sister, who for many years had lived in Oakland, had just relocated back to New York City at the time of his March 2002 auto accident. I visited him in Lexington less than three weeks before that accident. He had begun looking for employment again and things were looking up.

You probably know something about the accident from reading his brother’s blog. Since a blog is a public posting, I’m not going to post a lot of medical details here. Suffice it to say that Duncan has made slow but tangible progress on both the brain injury and physical injury fronts. His sister relocated to Kentucky; without the help of his family Duncan would have been dead long ago. His mother passed away in December 2006. But his brother fell in love with one of his physical therapists, married her in 2007 and had a child.

I last visited Duncan in June 2009. If I remember correctly, that was my fifth visit since the accident. He’s certainly doing better than he was in 2002.

Duncan was a co-worker at two type shops in New York City beginning in 1982 and was my best friend still living in New York City up through the time he first moved to the Bay Area in 1991. He then was my roommate in Brooklyn for two periods in the early 1990s. He was the first person to show me the Internet — Grateful Dead set lists in 1993 — and the first person to get me in to the Perl programming language, which ultimately became my career.

So, like you, Duncan set me on my current course in life. And for that I will be eternally grateful.

By private email I will let you know how you might try to reach Duncan.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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