Daryl wrote --

and he doesn't like to be talked about him getting older (I've
known several like that).

To me, every day is a gift,

When asked how I feel about aging I often say I don't mind, I've known
too many people over the years who never had the opportunity.
I read something once, and will mangle it, to the effect that as we get
older we stop lying about our age and begin to brag about it.

pass what he considered was a slow moving car. All he had on was a
pair of shorts...no shirt, no helmet, no shoes. A mailbox on the
side of the road caught the handlebar of the motorcycle...it
stopped...he didn't...flying over the handlebar at a high rate of
speed, crashing to the ground. He broke his shoulder, ankle, and
elbow, and fractured his hip.

Sheesh.

He's lucky to be alive

True.

grandmother-in-law, my Dad, my wife, my best man, and my brother,
all within a years time from September 2006 to September 2007.

Not to make light of that, but I'm reminded of a man lying on his
deathbed, his family gathered around him, etc.
He tells his wife "you know when we first got married and I lost my job
we were with me". He goes on to give a litany of problems over the years and with each one he said "and you were with me".
At the end she's nodding and crying, squeezing his hand and he says, "And
I have one thing to say to you."
She leans over and asks what it is.
He then says, "I think you brought me bad luck".
Joe
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