This is Ray and Sally in Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
Sally and I were just talking at dinner tonight about Brian’s visit to the UK in the late 90’s and she said she was gong to look on the Internet to see if she could still find him.
What a shock we had learning of the passing of Brian! (we used to know him by his nickname Dragonkeeper)
We had the great pleasure of knowing Brian in the late 1990’s and even managed to persuade his parents to let him come to England to stay with us for a few weeks even though he was a very young teenager.
Ray met Brian online and was immediately taken by his sense of humour, his polite attitude and his computer and internet knowledge which was way better than ours. He helped us with many and various problems over a number of years.
I can remember the day we collected him from Heathrow airport, London.
He was very tired after his trip and did say he wasn’t impressed with the food on American Airlines which made us smile.
Whilst he stayed with us, he helped with some web design work and my computer systems but mainly we all just had a good time.
We visited London to see the Queen but she was out, would have been nice to introduce Brian to her 🙂
We stayed one night with my parents at their home by the sea in Mudeford, Dorset and visited the New Forest in Hampshire.
We had a couple of dinner parties so Brian could meet some of our family and friends although I had to be careful with the cooking due to his Chrones Disease.
We went to Stone Henge in Somerset which I know he enjoyed but I do believe the highlight of his visit was Warwick Castle. He never stopped smiling from the moment we arrived to the moment we left.
We feel really sad that such a nice person as Brian is no longer with us.
I met Brian while I was a student at RIT in November 2009. He invited me over for dinner and boardgames that Sunday and we repeated it every week until I left for Wisconsin in Summer 2011. I met most of my Rochester friends through him.
We kept in touch playing games online, and stayed friends.
I asked him to be a groomsman at my wedding in 2014. He never told me his birthday was the day before. That was the last time I saw him in person.
Brian was a stand up guy. A great friend, a great person. He never deserved any of his troubles in life.
You will be so very missed! Every time I go to tinseltown I always expect to see you there as I always did to say hi. I will also miss how you thought it was crazy that when Mike and I got together with your mom and dad that when we played our games we never kept score or kind of change the rules of the game to fudge our mistake on our turns. I’m so very glad that we were able to see you Saturday little did we know when we said good bye that, that would be our final good bye. Fly high and join the angels.
Brian, you were one of the best people I’ve ever met. We had a lot of great times playing games together over the years, and you will live on in more hearts and minds than I can ever imagine. You were an anchor of stability for us, and you always spoke with a voice of reason. I have always had a great deal of respect for you, and it hurts me to know that the world has lost such a great person.
I knew Brian for 8 or 9 years through the internet. We played probably thousands of hours of videogames and dungeons and dragons together. He was one of the sweetest, nicest guys I knew. He was hard working, dedicated to everything he did, he cared for his friends both online and off to the greatest of his ability. Through the internet he touched hundreds of lives, and the outpouring of grief online has been overwhelming and humbling. Brian suffered with far more health issues than anyone deserved, never mind someone so kind and loving. Brian didn’t lose the world, the world lost Brian, and we are far poorer for it. I will probably always be angry at the total unfairness of his illness and passing, and I sincerely wish I could have gone in his place. I think anyone who really knew him would have.
I wish we had had more time together, Brian, I am sorry I didn’t know how bad things had gotten until too late.
This is Ray and Sally in Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
Sally and I were just talking at dinner tonight about Brian’s visit to the UK in the late 90’s and she said she was gong to look on the Internet to see if she could still find him.
What a shock we had learning of the passing of Brian! (we used to know him by his nickname Dragonkeeper)
We had the great pleasure of knowing Brian in the late 1990’s and even managed to persuade his parents to let him come to England to stay with us for a few weeks even though he was a very young teenager.
Ray met Brian online and was immediately taken by his sense of humour, his polite attitude and his computer and internet knowledge which was way better than ours. He helped us with many and various problems over a number of years.
I can remember the day we collected him from Heathrow airport, London.
He was very tired after his trip and did say he wasn’t impressed with the food on American Airlines which made us smile.
Whilst he stayed with us, he helped with some web design work and my computer systems but mainly we all just had a good time.
We visited London to see the Queen but she was out, would have been nice to introduce Brian to her 🙂
We stayed one night with my parents at their home by the sea in Mudeford, Dorset and visited the New Forest in Hampshire.
We had a couple of dinner parties so Brian could meet some of our family and friends although I had to be careful with the cooking due to his Chrones Disease.
We went to Stone Henge in Somerset which I know he enjoyed but I do believe the highlight of his visit was Warwick Castle. He never stopped smiling from the moment we arrived to the moment we left.
We feel really sad that such a nice person as Brian is no longer with us.
Ray & Sally Danks
I met Brian while I was a student at RIT in November 2009. He invited me over for dinner and boardgames that Sunday and we repeated it every week until I left for Wisconsin in Summer 2011. I met most of my Rochester friends through him.
We kept in touch playing games online, and stayed friends.
I asked him to be a groomsman at my wedding in 2014. He never told me his birthday was the day before. That was the last time I saw him in person.
Brian was a stand up guy. A great friend, a great person. He never deserved any of his troubles in life.
Dan
You will be so very missed! Every time I go to tinseltown I always expect to see you there as I always did to say hi. I will also miss how you thought it was crazy that when Mike and I got together with your mom and dad that when we played our games we never kept score or kind of change the rules of the game to fudge our mistake on our turns. I’m so very glad that we were able to see you Saturday little did we know when we said good bye that, that would be our final good bye. Fly high and join the angels.
Brian, you were one of the best people I’ve ever met. We had a lot of great times playing games together over the years, and you will live on in more hearts and minds than I can ever imagine. You were an anchor of stability for us, and you always spoke with a voice of reason. I have always had a great deal of respect for you, and it hurts me to know that the world has lost such a great person.
I’m going to miss you Brian. We all will.
-Ray, aka Chris
I knew Brian for 8 or 9 years through the internet. We played probably thousands of hours of videogames and dungeons and dragons together. He was one of the sweetest, nicest guys I knew. He was hard working, dedicated to everything he did, he cared for his friends both online and off to the greatest of his ability. Through the internet he touched hundreds of lives, and the outpouring of grief online has been overwhelming and humbling. Brian suffered with far more health issues than anyone deserved, never mind someone so kind and loving. Brian didn’t lose the world, the world lost Brian, and we are far poorer for it. I will probably always be angry at the total unfairness of his illness and passing, and I sincerely wish I could have gone in his place. I think anyone who really knew him would have.
I wish we had had more time together, Brian, I am sorry I didn’t know how bad things had gotten until too late.
– Mori, aka Calvin