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Since our 2021 'plans' have pretty much come to naught we've reset, revised, and rethought for 2022. Updated dream is a ship from Dubai, 'round the Gulf of Aden, through the Suez, with stops at Petra, Jerusalem, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Sicily, et al, ending in Civitavecchia......thence Trieste...

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/leon-spinks-jr-obit-dead-67-cancer-prostate-1.5904514

Phil Spector, whom some of you may remember from his association with The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers, The Crystals, Ike & Tina, etc, and who was convicted of murder in 2009, died from 'Covid related' issues aged 81. https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/17/phil-spector-dead-dies-81/

I've listen to this one, it seems like a zillion times, about an old, presumably Jewish, pawnbroker who survived the death camps: "I remember the officer's watch In my hand: 'Repair it or die' I was told It's a wonder to me - I still don't understand Why I ever survived to be old"

Last month had knee-hip X-Rays. Knees, as I've known for eons, are shot, (I ran a marathon early 1984 with tensor bandages, had arthroscopy in 1998, attending surgeon said "Sooner or later, try and make it later..").....I've been able to manage the knees. Right hip has been given me problems...

Playing around....looking at Fall 2021 (if I'm still around I'll be 79, but hey....) 'Plan' is in reverse order, written very lightly in pencil, (based on ship arrival date, (IF ship travel is viable by that time)), so start date (Toronto to Warsaw) is as yet 'undetermined': Fall 2021 -...

https://deadline.com/2020/07/john-saxon-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-star-dies-at-83-1202995296/

Didn't know where else to put this: Free haircuts for the homeless.....rapid transformations. (The music's good too.)

Idle hands an' all that: Browsing through my old files, waiting for DW's bread to bake so that we can go for a walk, I stumbled over this old thread from 2015.... https://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f46/older-travel-photos-79559.html (most of the pics I posted using the now belly up Tiny...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52314289 Brian Dennehy, dead at 81.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-11162866 Ooos...I meant 94. Ah well, both numbers add up to 13.

On the elliptical, listening to Long Road Out of Eden, thought this might be one of a number of potential Covid background songs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51986611

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/arts/television/edd-byrnes-dead.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/don-imus-legendary-imus-morning-host-dies-at-79-1265052

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7770335/Rene-Auberjonois-Star-Trek-Boston-Legal-Actor-Dies-79.html

Loved her! Bummer. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/diahann-carroll-dead-pioneering-actress-julia-dynasty-was-84-1196051

Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has died at the age of 88 https://www.apnews.com/bf7636e4843d4f129607db5a3afdf6b1 Always loved this guy, ("in a manly way, of course"...Seinfeld?)

Since no-one else mentioned him, and since he always made me smile: https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/r-i-p-laugh-in-star-arte-johnson.html

We've had 'Favorite everything else' so how about favorite historically inspired songs: Done With Bonaparte

I got Stoned and I missed it: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6543393/Ray-Sawyer-Dr-Hook-Medicine-famous-eye-patch-cowboy-hat-dies-81.html

As usual, hit Present up in the top right corner, wait for it to load, then use arrows or space bar to advance. You have been warned. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sCAI57MExxWxk2-vUcNMtu535oJ4LbDYPNsYHNjkkno/edit?usp=sharing

We were away, and I didn't hear that Charles Aznavour had died: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/obituaries/charles-aznavour-dead.html I posted this for DW's 66th in mid-October, unaware that the wasn't still around:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/burt-reynolds-dead-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093