Link, once again you've saved the day! All fixed. Thanks for the catch!

jim, thanks for bringing all that up. Good to remember. Just an aside, did you know that when Garner was asked to star in the mini-series Space, he said he'd only do it if his character, a US Senator was changed from the Republican he is in Michener's novel to a Democrat? Ralph H, Have you read The Last Gunfiight by Jeff Guinn? It gets anto detail about a lot of the points you make about Earp. I was hoping we'd have The Americanization of Emily as our feature for Family Movie Night but I was outvoted. We're watching Victor Victoria instead. wwolfe, El Jefe, Skin Game! Completely slipped my mind. That's one of the few I've only seen once and that was when I was a kid. Time to rewatch!

Sherri, I can't tell you how glad Mrs M and I are that our college guys will be living at home for another few years. Tim, thanks, and here's the thing, while I'm skeptical about fraternities I always liked my frat guy students. In fact, at HWS the two groups who seemed to like me and my classes best were the frat guys and African American students. Never understood how that happened.

El Jefe: Crud. Put my eulogy in the wrong thread. El Jefe, easily taken care of. Here you are: Oh God. Of course it's been coming a long time but like watching first your grandparents and then parents fade away it's always, always too soon. The last of my four celebrity "anchors" from my childhood is gone. Jim Henson we lost far too long ago and Johnny Costa too (who along with my Mammaw brought me to the piano and damn near gave me my taste in music as his lyrical hard bop put the breath in Fred Rogers' make-believe machine), and of course more recently Lena Horne. But Jim? I feel the same weight on my heart that I did when my actual favorite uncle died, the one who in such a Garnerish way used to take me out for strawberry milkshakes in his leather-plated Volvo sportscast he'd picked up as an Army officer in West Germany. Now I know how te Siren felt when Peter Falk passed (who I mourned too, but big Jim was my favorite. Support Your Local Sheriff is, eternally, one of my five favorite movies. Very nicely put. Thank you.

Don, thanks for the heads up! Definitely want to see/read/listen to that. Some quick googling hasn't turned it up though. Is it online? I did find my way to Sibley's Facebook page and liked that and there I watched this video, David Allen Sibley sketches a Townsend's Warbler, which of course has a slew of videos associated with it, so there goes the rest of my day!

Link, thanks for reminding me. There's another medical test I need to submit myself to soon! How did yours turn out? Eyes ok?