Thank you very much for your kind words, guys.

I'm not just saying that -- your responses and expressions of condolences are meaningful to me, so thank you.
For a long time I've known my dad didn't have much left on this earth, and so did he. Yesterday was still a very difficult day. He was a man from a more authoritarian time -- where "men were men" and there was never much time or space for mushy stuff, but I always knew where he stood the love was always there. Again, knowing so many people who haven't had fathers much in their life (my wife's father dying of cancer when she was just age 2 being one such example), I feel lucky and have much to be thankful for.
Drove to Santa Cruz, enjoyed a beautiful day along the ocean, and toasted a drink or two in his honor.