[Coco] Way Off Topic, was Re: Needed Rainbow Magazines

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 09 May 2009, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>I must have had my head turned when Entwhistle's obit came out.

I think I saw it, but the mention of the Who in the obit was pretty low key, 
so it didn't really go ding ding for me, darnit.
>Well, he
> made it to "near old".  Half a dozen more years to go for me (and if I
> manage three, it'll be a record for anybody carrying my Y-chromosome in
> recorded history -- I've made it past the age where black lung took out
> most, and I apparently have a stronger liver than the few others -- dad's
> liver wore out when he was younger than I am, but the San Diego VA hospital
> used him as a guinea pig for new techniques and kept him going for another
> half decade [if I sound callous, I am -- we never got along] while at the
> same time the East Orange NJ VA hospital was in their third decade of
> trying to kill my future father-in-law [took them slightly over forty years
> to kill that magnificent bastard, he lived almost exactly as long as Robert
> Heinlein]).

I like your choice of descriptions there, he must have been a cool dude.  And 
if he lived as long as RAH, then their attempts to meet the actuarial charts 
were pretty unsuccessful.

I'm in fair shape, but a knee seems to be going away.  I still wake up with 
all the aches & pains I went to bed with.  Whatdoyaexpect at 74?  Stuff wears 
out, and the FDA is bound and determined that we keep on falling over on 
schedule, bastards.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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