Hey everyone.  Its me again.  Of course I don't do this very often but shit happens that makes me think about various things that cause me to write again.

As some of you already know, Chris is now in jail and will be for a few years probably.  Unfortunately he made the descision to rob Quiznos at gunpoint and now he has to do the time for it.

What you guys don't know about this story is that I was good friends with Chris.  The 3 nights leading up to the robbery I hung out with him and drove him around town and what not.  On Tuesday he had actually told me his plan to rob Quiznos but like many other people I didn't really believe that he would do this.  Wednesday came and went and he told me he didn't do it because he couldn't find a driver so this made me think he definately wouldn't do it.  Then came Thursday, he called me around 3:30 or so and told me he got a driver and was on his way to do it.  Once again, the dumb ass I am thought he wouldn't do it because there are some things that he has said that have never happened so the creditbility of his word isn't always the greatest but reguardless he is my friend and I normally stick by him but robbery is one thing I wasn't about to believe.  So abotu 30 mins later I get a call again from him and he is all out of breathe asking me to check my police scanner to see if he is alright.  Knowing the consequenses of helping out, all I did was walk outside and say he was fine and not check the scanner.  Then something inside me was pretty sure he did do this but since I didn't check the scanner I still had now proof and was in a bit of a shock so I waited to know more.  Later on I found out that indeed he did go through with it and was caught within 30 mins.  Talking to Elow I decided to go to the police station and tell them everything that happened just in case they checked his cellphone and found that he had called me before and after.  That was all fine and dandy but then it was so hard to still believ ethat he had done this...

I was at work last night trying to let everything sink in and then I walk out to my car on my lunchbreak and press play on the CD player...this one song comes on that Chris had made a priority to listen to the night before and in the chrosus it talks about never being let down...so I start to think about things again and it all catches up to me.  I wonder to myself why hadn't I done anythign to stop him and why didn't I try harder to help out with whatever he was having trouble with even though I couldn't do what he needed and I just thought that I could have stopped this.  I finally come to realize that I even if I would have told someone about the robbery it would hav ebeen done anyway and could have turned out much worse. 

Its just so hard to sit here and think about how a friend you know very well and would often have deep conversations with is now going to be gone for a few years because of armed robbery...Many of you think that he is a horrible person and a bad influence and this just makes you sure of it.  Reguardless of what he has done I am still his friend and I always will be.  I am going to miss hangin out with him and talking to him about everything.  He was a good friend and even though he did what he did  I believe that people can make bad descisions and thats what they have to live with but that doesn't always mean they are bad people.  He will always be my friend and though it will be a little hard, I think Im goign to try to visit him at least once...

Thank you for listening.  I hope all of you have a wonderful summer.