I went back through mine and Calebs FB message history since the beginning of the year to remember better times. He'd message me at random at least once a week and tell me to get an xbox so I could grind online games with him. We used to do it quite often (countless hours on Borderlands) but once I moved back to PA I let my brother keep my 360. We'd just banter back and fourth about life, poker, the good ol' days with the "TS Crew", and just random nonsense. For a good 2 years there there was a solid group of people that would go to every TS series without fail. It'd be the best of times. We'd all be on skype calls daily while we grinded online and just reminisced about everything. After BF much of this changed, but we all ended up in Vegas last summer and had a great time. After that we all went our ways and only really talked on facebook from time to time. Caleb was one of few people from that core group that I actually talked with on a regular basis after the fact. He'd ask me how life was, rant about poker like always, and just shoot the ****. One time in particular I had posted some random lyrics on facebook (forget what they were. apparently they lead him to believe I was upset) and I got the following message
Caleb Mead
why so emo lately bucko
we can mantalk about it
March 2Ryan Tamanini
emo how?
not emo at all
March 2Caleb Mead
idk song lyrics and such
March 2Ryan Tamanini
90s alternative
if I put up like
spin doctors lyrics
would that be different?
March 2Caleb Mead
lol idk
JUST THOUGHT I'D OFFER MY SERVICES GAWD
That just goes to show Calebs true character.
The last thing he asked from me was a picture from 2 new years ago where I was entirely too drunk and looked like a fool. I wasn't able to find it for him, but he apparently had big plans for it had he found it. Now I can only wish I knew what it was... probably another one of his awesome memes he would make on a whim that would give everyone a laugh.
We had our differences over the summer, but I'd never consider him anything less than a great friend and beautiful person.
RIP Caleb Mead. Still can't believe you're gone