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Remembering dockmackie |
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by Paul Arnote (parnote) PCLinuxOS lost a loyal and faithful user on December 4, 2023. Our friend dockmackie passed away after a two to three week hospitalization. He was 76 years old.  dockmackie's avatar from the PCLinuxOS forum "Dock," as he was often called, was born on August 26, 1947. He lived in Clayton, Georgia, amidst the backdrop of the Smoky Mountains. He was married to his wife, Joanne, and he was the "master" of several dogs that lived with them. At least three of them were Great Pyrenees. His dogs were his "babies." Dock joined the PCLinuxOS forum on November 28, 2014. His last login to the forum was November 22, 2023. He also frequently dropped into the PCLinuxOS-Magazine chat room on PCLOS-Talk. His last visit there was on November 24, 2023. In the chat room, dock would talk about his dogs and his wife Joanne. He would also talk quite a bit about his ongoing struggles with his breathing. In his later years, the high pollen levels and high humidity in/near Clayton, Georgia seemed to exacerbate his breathing problems, so he was relegated to spending a lot of his time inside his house. Most of the time it was Dock, The CrankyZombie, Meemaw, tuxlink and me, talking about things we'd seen on the forum, sharing family stories, or health issues, or comparing the weather from our respective areas (Dock lived in Georgia, Meemaw and I live near Kansas City, tuxlink lives in California, and The CrankyZombie lives in Oregon.) On the PCLinuxOS forum, dock posted quite a bit about using VirtualBox, as well as working with MySQL and MariaDB database "stuff." Most of his posts were seeking assistance with various issues he may have been having. Very few of his posts were in response to some of the silliness and tomfoolery that sometimes goes on in the forum. His last post in the forum was on October 21, 2023, when he was looking for which package included the library file libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37. He posted a "thank you" for all of the birthday wishes on August 27, 2022, and it best captures his wit and sense of humor: "Thank you all for the happy birthdays, I appreciate it! This summer has easily been the single most purgatorial span of time I can ever remember. Wake up each morning to light the color of dead guacamole under a sky the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel but not nearly as interesting, air too thick to breath and too thin to drink. Day after day after day after day. I am now 75 and officially Old Goat. I can look back across the years and see what a turmoil of meaningless and forgettable scurrying around they really were, a wasteland of irreplaceable hours lost on nothing much. Yesterday was a pleasant surprise. I woke up to a clear sky, there was a real dawn with a real sun in it instead of a time warp into the Palaeozoic. It was the first normal summer day of the summer, come late. It got hot enough by midday to stay in for a while, and then a small and needlessly enthusiastic small thunderstorm blew up, had a crisis of electricity (striking the roof twice) directly overhead, dumping 2.5 inches of ice water (melted hail, so it had to be a really tall column up there), and then disintegrated, after dropping the outside temp by 20F. Then there is a fine meal, finished up with a raspberry cheesecake. Does it get better than this? Probably not. All that just to say how much I appreciate you all, each and every. Best regards!" We bid you adieu, dockmackie. Thank you for blessing us with your presence. We hope that you find eternal peace, and that your family and friends can revel in the memories of the good times you had with them. You will be missed! Meemaw and YouCanToo also contributed details for this article. |
