I don't know if many people here knew @Airshack a member here, or Sparkdrummer who hung out on Atariage. They were friends and the two members of the Valley of the Sun TI Users Group in Arizona and both were very active TI-99/4A users. Anyway Sparkdrummer the author of Yesterday's News (A TI newsletter) passed away on the 19th. I was lucky enough to meet him and @Airshack at the 2016 Fest West and knew them both to be great people.
It saddens me to see so many TI Users pass away over the past few years, as well as seeing many living ones depart the TI community for various reasons. I would truly like to see the remaining ones come together and circle the wagons (so to speak). Without a vibrant community of like minded and positive individuals, some will slip away and the loss to the community can lead to an ever increasing decrease in the user base, which appears to me to have already started, based on the amount of traffic that has declined on various sites over the past three years.