About Time I Updated...

When I was a kid, I lived in Bay Village, Ohio. I moved away when I was 14 to neighboring Westlake(August 1978). When I was 12, The Patrick family moved in across the street from us. As I remember there were 5 kids, Robbie, a girl whose name I can’t remember, Lewis, and the twins Ritchie and Cheri.

I was somewhat friends with them, and hung out at times with Lewis even though he was running with a different crowd than I was. I remember Robbie coming home from college at times, and that he had a really nice car that he spent lot of time on. I didn’t really know him well. Cheri was perhaps the sweetest little girl I had ever met in my life. She was always very nice to me, and I liked her.

Ritchie, on the other hand was perhaps the most annoying kid. He really got on my nerves. I remember I had a mini-bike that my dad had given me, and I was trying with as much of the mechanical acumen I had at the time to get it working… to no avail. Ritchie was there for a lot of the time while I was screwing with it, and he was constantly nagging and telling me that “I would never get it working.” Somewhere between the frustration of not getting it going and his constant badgering; I lost it. I pushed him down, and gave him a few swift kicks in his backside, and screamed at him to go home. Of course the neighbor lady across the street saw it, and started yelling at me. Embarrassed and angry, I pulled everything back into the garage, and slammed the door down. Ritchie, who is a few years younger than me, started bawling, and ran home.

The next thing I know his brother Lewis is at my door asking what happened, I went outside and explained; he was not satisfied, and pushed me around a little bit on behalf of his little brother. I had it coming.

The day I moved was the last I saw of them, I really wasn’t that close to them, and after the incident with Ritchie I was fairly sure that I would not talk to them again.

Yesterday I was looking at the website for the City of Bay Village getting information on the upcoming ‘Bay Day’ on the 4th of July since I’m planning on going. There I saw a link that listed famous people from Bay Village.

My jaw hit the floor. Guess who I used to live across the street from?


Robert Patrick


Ritchie Patrick

Robert, as most of you may know played the T1000 Terminator in T2 with 'Ah'nold, and Ritchie, or Richard as he goes now is the lead guitarist/vocalist for the band Filter. He also worked with Nine Inch Nails.

On the off chance that Ritchie should happen across this meager blog here in Cyber Space... hey, I'm really sorry about that thing with the mini-bike. I was way out of line. And I'm glad to see that you are still a Star Wars nerd. Tell Cheri and Lew I said hey.

So, where have I been? I’ve been busy doing a number of things really; mostly just to help me keep my sanity.

Cheryl, who has repeatedly quit drinking, has actually gone 10 days without it. Last month she asked me for more time. She felt that I was rushing her into a divorce. I really don’t see how since she has been asking for one on and off for the last 8 years. Since I really don’t have the time or resources right now to pursue this, I thought, “okay, I can wait”, and I have been watching her try to get some traction in life ever since.

You know, part of the reason I don’t update as regular as I like is because I really wish I had something else to talk about in my life other than the misery that is my wife.

Well, actually I do. There are other things that have been going on, but nothing really that exciting.

The big thing has been my garage project. For the last 2 years it has been an abysmal mess. The boys have been using as a hang out for playing ping pong. So for the last month I have been getting it cleaned out and made into a workshop for the projects I have coming. I have 2, one major; the other not so major, just a lot of work. The major one is going to be the demolition and reconstruction of a portion of my house, and the other is restoring an antique that I have had for the last 20 years. Both of these are stories in and of the themselves.

Perhaps I'll update later with the details of those projects.

Later, Rick