Don, you are one of the OGs. Even if they do it for a month and then completely deleted the thread before lawsuits hit, they should do it. It would be a fitting tribute to someone who is held in extremely high regard here.

It is in my living will that my executor is to hold a memorial for me at a specific club, with a list of invitees (however many of them would attend considering the way I burn bridges), and a program including 5 songs (4 of my own, the 5th a version of Sarah McLachlin's Angel sung by a local girl singer here who was a longtime friend before we parted ways), time for anybody to tell stories they might remember me by, and the instruction that one specific group of women be seated at the same table. (I'll let you use your imagination as to why.) My sendoff will be HAPPY!!! Of course I won't know if it even happens, but I truly believe that the end of the road should be happy, because you get to keep the memories of those who have departed. Everybody who has participated in this thread has fond memories of you, and those memories will continue. And though this is likely rather premature, allow me to add my Vaya Con Dios to the pile. A plane may crash on any of our houses later today and take us! You truly never know. I learned that in a car crash 7 years ago that almost got me. Thus was born my song Second Chance.

I hope those close to you will see to it that your celebration of life will be upbeat, as you have always been an upbeat guy. I am certain they will!!

What I PMed you was more personal and I won't share it here.

Vaya Con Dios!