Like Ed Yee mentioned above, Bob was a mentor for me as well. Only he mentored me twice, in 2 completely separate subjects. My first engineering job after college was with Eaton, and I was assigned to the IT MCC group with Bob, and another engineer named Kurt. Kurt was the design guy, Bob was the testing guy, and I spent my time bouncing between the two of them. Can't even describe how much I learned from him. Standards work, test plan creation, actual testing... learned a lot from him in the engineering realm and I will always be grateful for that. Over the years I worked with him, we must've spent over 50 weeks doing testing offsite, either in Pennsylvania, or North Carolina, or even sometimes at the Rockwell plant where he ended up working later. Those were fun times. He'd make the plan, then send me out (he referred to me as his "300 pound gorilla") to do the wrench work. He'd mainly tell jokes, and drink coffee and smoke. But he taught me a ton about testing, and how to get stuff to pass. Then again, later, after Bob had left for Rockwell, I left Wisconsin for California. As it happened, my first job out there was with a company called RCBS, which made reloading equipment for hunters and competitive shooters. I had no experience in that industry, been years since I'd even held a gun. I remembered that Bob was big in trap shooting and hunting, and sent him an email, asking him if he'd ever heard of the place. He sent me a picture of his reloading bench, full of RCBS equipment, and told me I had just landed his dream job. He then proceeded to send me around a dozen emails, each at least a page long, each describing some facet of the industry in detail. I went from a complete newbie to someone who could hold meaningful discussions in record time, thanks to Bob. So he was a mentor for me in that respect as well. Even though I no longer work at RCBS, I was still trading emails with Bob on a regular basis right up until his passing. I'm going to miss that. One funny (to me, anyway) story to share about Bob... when I started at RCBS, I started buying a few rifles. Not knowing much about the subject, I'd ask everyone for opinions, including Bob. I'd send him an email.... "hey Bob, I'm thinking about getting XXX rifle, you know anything about it?" And I'd get a reply a few hours later "No, I don't know what one you're talking about, I'll look into it." Then the following Monday "Hey Scott, I stopped in at the local Gander Mountain this weekend, I saw the one you are asking about. Yeah, I really like the stock on it, I think it'll be a great gun for you. So I bought one in .300 win mag. And another in .223. And put one in .308 on order." He'd do that all the time. It was a combination of funny, and frustrating (just because I couldn't afford to match him rifle for rifle), but also awesome, because he'd buy all these guns I was looking at, then shoot the heck out of them and give me a good review of what he liked and didn't about the rifle. Bob will be missed. Thanks to him for all the help and memories.