Happy Birthday Tim!

Marilee and I wish we could be there for you today.  My excuse is decent. It's my brithday party day too :-)

It's been great having you as a friend all these years from the early days of OM to Munich to Wroclaw to now.  I really love remembering our visit to Wroclaw sampling their local goodies, seeing the smiling Polish faces and seeing some of the sites.

Here you are enjoying a walk in the city ...

where every block there is a lovely Catholic Cathedral:

I guess no one offered to take our picture, because here I am too:

Now for a little closer view

Why don't you have a nerd shirt on like me?

Here you are in the town centre having a coke.  I was probably having a beer.

I must have slipped it in my back pocket.

I recall you were a lot braver than I when it came to buying their sausages in the open air festival that day.  It was awesome to have you there co-teaching with me.  They were the first engineers in Poland I know of learning about TDD for Embedded.  Here you are getting ready before the room fills...

and the chaos of computer setup begins.

I do not have any pictures of you in Munich, but I do have

^^^^ HAXEN ^^^^

Have the happiest of Birthdays Tim!  Sorry to miss it.  Hugs for Libby having this great idea for a birthday blog.

Indiana Days

Found some special photos of Tim in my archives...

Winter 2004 Snowmobiling after church at Avon

Halloween 2004 this character showed up at my doorstep...   Scary!

 January 2005 - a fierce Tim face 

(maybe it wasn't the best time to be taking his picture).  

The "soft focus" just adds to the chills...  stay away from dark alleys!   :)

 The serious look...

 I believe that Tim taught me how to spell Linux!

June 2005 VBS at Avon, IN doing what Tim does best, serving and sharing his music!

There were lots of good memories of our time together in Indiana.  You have had a huge impact on my family through the years for which I am thankful.   Happy Birthday, Tim!      

- Dave and Margaret Humrichouser & family

Tim cooking burger's for Nate's 1st birthday

Tim, you've been an incredible friend to our whole family, our kids included.  It has always meant the world to me to see you wrestling with and loving on my kids!  That's one of the things I really miss since moving away from Chicago.  I also miss your cooking, salsa making, computer troubleshooting, deep theological comments in Sunday school, and your sweet guitar playing.  Looking forward to the celebration of 50 years!!
Vange

What can I tell about my dear brother, Tim?  Hmmm. Life with him was never boring!  In his kindergarten picture he has a scowl on his face.  Why? Because, "I lost my smile."  At dinner one night, as Dad was encouraging him to have more bean soup, he announced, "I'm full of beans!" (It's true, you are, Tim!)  And there was the day we were all gathered around the table and he literally fell sideways off his chair...in slow motion! Stories of his adventures would literally have us rolling on the floor as we reached our teens.  Some day he will need to share with everyone what happened to all the cheese balls from Hickory Farms at the mall. But one of the best memories I have of my brother is 'yard surfing' at the parents' house. One of us drove the golf cart over bumps and hills while the other stood on the back and struggled to maintain their balance. It's a wonder we have survived, but we sure had a good time.  I'm proud to call you brother, only wish we didn't live so far apart!  Love you, man!

Margaret

As a fellow guitarist, coffee connoisseur, chili-lover, and hack theologian (amongst other things), I have come to appreciate the finer things in life with Tim.  He has forgotten more about the blues than I'll ever know and everything I know about making a kick-butt salsa is directly from him.  More important than all of that is he is a good, genuine, caring friend.  We can jam with guitars on our laps and talk about life, without feeling eyes of judgmentalism.  It's a shame that since we've moved away from the Chicago area, I have yet to find a friend like Tim.  I probably won't.  He's a one-in-a-million kind of guy and I'm a better guy for having known him.  Happy Birthday, and here's to fifty more!