Rose, Ernie, Peter and Maria, and John Schimpf are all friends of the family - they grew up in Stockton, California, and had us out at their place numerous times, in addition to Rose and John visiting us in New Hampshire occasionally. John Schimpf did work with Patrick on the Downtown Studios website, and is an expert sound recording and editing engineer. Rose was a vibrant Hillary Clinton supporter when Patrick worked on Hillary's campaign from 2007-2008. John went to school with Patrick's sister, in which they met by John accidentally hitting Crystal with a bean bag he was playing with in the Music Department. They were married for many years and later divorced because they were heading in opposite directions in their professional lives, with John still based solely in Music, and Crystal travelling the world with her Library Science career and her own library training business, kixal.