OK, it's official...

I still miss you, Mark.  You know what I miss most about you?  Your serene calm.  You were always the peacemaker.  When I got into an argument with your ex-wife who was living in the trailer that you were paying the mortgage, taxes and insurance on, with her lazy-ass then-boyfriend who she wasn't encouraging to pay shit, and who took in every stray cat who showed up on the doorstep, who promptly pissed all over the place and made it smell like amonia, you stepped in and calmed me down.  I miss that warmth and total acceptance, that want to create and keep peace. 
Everyone I know now is hyper, or maybe I'm putting them on the defensive and helping them be that way.  Either way, just wanna relax and have that warm sense of humor, sense of acceptance, again.  Turning on NBC's Thursday night comedy lineup...always a guaranteed recipe for success in this regard.