If you're not a regular YouTuber, you won't have the slightest idea what or who I am writing about. However, my very first subscriber apparently died this weekend.

We don't know how. We don't know when exactly, and frankly we don't know for sure. However, all YouTube signs point to the passing of TheBoringDispatcher, who happened to be the very first subscriber to my channel (soonerryan2000).

Not that Roger was into jazz or videos of people playing songs, but I had sent him an e-mail relative to something he was talking about -- and he sends me one back that read: "You're a good player. You should have subscribers."

And he became my first -- and now I'm up to 184. That is not a lot in the land of YouTube. However, in all practicality, I probably would have abandoned the YouTube concept if I hadn't gotten a subscriber within weeks of the communication I had with Roger.

Eventually, he unsubscribed to me but I think it's because he hopped off YouTube or switched channels. At one point, he sent me a nice note relative to my rendition of "Suicide is Painless," which is the theme to M*A*S*H, saying that it was one of his favorite tunes.

He was a good dude. We weren't buddies, and I didn't take to everything he talked about. But he had a dry, dry sense of humor, and was a fun watch, and in the world of YouTube, that's about as personal as we get.

For the record, I spent a couple minutes looking up Los Angeles area obituaries for anybody with the name Roger or anybody 31 years old, and I found nothing. This could absolutely be a hoax; however, there's nothing to indicate this ain't the real deal.

So, let it serve as my brief online tribute to the one and only Boring Dispatcher!