I wish it was. I'm just going to copy and paste an email I just sent to my gf (and Mike).

I just got a phone call that said "name withheld", so I didn't answer. Checked my voicemail 5 mins later and it was a message from Dominique saying that she had something important to tell me and to call her back right away. I assumed she was just being silly, although she's only called me a couple times before so I was kind of curious. So I called her back and she said that Charlie was hit by a drunk driver while riding through Manitoba and he's dead. What the ****.

Dominique is actually in the process of riding back here from Montreal with her boyfriend as well, so its obviously an especially terrible time to get news like that. She still has to ride for a couple more days (I assume) and obviously it's going to be hard to put that out of her mind. She's not alone at least.

She didn't have too many details because it only happened in the last day or so (she wasn't sure when), but she asked me to pass it along to everyone else. She mentioned a name.. "Shaneil" maybe? I didn't recognize it, but I assume a friend or family-member. Apparently there's going to be a memorial service on Monday.