In this case your free advice is sound advice, and worth following. In the past several years I've watched some number of my elders pass on and had to tend to their affairs. All the while getting my own affairs in order so that my sons will not have the headaches I had in that regard.

I suppose it has affected my thinking in a morbid way in that it seems everything I do is about preparing to die... I'm not even sick (except for that bit of thinking). I suppose it's time to do as Zig Ziglar says and get a "check-up from the neck up".

I still don't know if I'll get a dog (we have a rescue now, gun shy, non hunter but totally devoted to #1 wife), but I may take a few trips.

Thanks for the gravity check.

Alan