anyone who knows me, knows that i'm a tv addict...
so i'm watching a re-run of "8 simple rules"..
it's the first episode without john ritter... with the funeral, etc.,
and it's one of the saddest moments i've known...

and it's not becuz the character played by ritter is gone..
it's the fact that we know ritter himself is gone forever...

whenever i felt kick-the-dirt-punch-the-wall-hide-in-my-closet mad, it was my dad that could always make me laugh..
what's more, he could make me laugh about whatever it was i was irately pissed about...
and in that same spirit... the comedy of john ritter had the same effect...

i guess what hit me was, someday he'll be gone too...
i just hope it's much later than sooner...