From Lindsay 'Kalscheur' Walters:

1. Every occasion I have ever spent time with Aaron, it has been a raucous swingin' time--usually including at least one, if not many, moment(s) where I have laughed so hard I had to fight desperately in order to not throw up or pee my pants. Needless to say, he's a funny man. But I'm sure many who contribute to this blog will say likewise, so I want to draw on an earlier memory I have of Aaron. It includes a big yellow school bus, (#22, I think), an often scary but sometimes nice bus driver (named Pat, I think), and a small group of hoodlum boys that had staked out the back seats as their territory. Being younger and much less cool than those kids, I only observed the cool kids in the back from my middle-of-the-bus-seat. Aaron was one of those cool kids in the back seat. Troublemaker. But so cool. All the younger girls had crushes on him. I'm sure it was he who started the tradition of telling dirty jokes (the ones sixth graders find especially amusing) that was the established norm when we reached back-of-the-bus status. Aaron always made his presence known.
I also remember in those days one afternoon when I was playing with some neighbor kids in my yard and Aaron came strolling into the neighborhood on his trick bike, looking pretty awesome with his side-spiked blonde hair. It was a well known fact that Aaron had a crush on my neighbor, Missy Swanson. Aaron asked me (I felt pretty awesome) if I knew where Missy was. I'm sure he must have asked me because I, also, was exceptionally cool for my age--and not because Missy was my babysitter. That had to be a coincidence.

2. Cliche perhaps, but try hard to enjoy the ride, and don't take yourself too seriously. I sometimes catch myself feeling sad about decisions I made in the past, knowing that if I could go back I would have done things differently. But the truth is, I think we live our lives the best we can with whatever knowledge we have at that point. So rather than ruminating mournfully over mistakes of the past, it helps to chuckle at yourself, and piddley person you once were, and choose to live better with the day you have. And always keep a whoopy cushion on hand.

There. the end.