@BumbleBeeBoogie,
Fine post, BBB. You've got 10 years on me, but us geezers have to stand up to the whippersnappers (I like that word minus the hyphenation). c.i. is somewhere in between you and me. He's two or three years older than I am.
There are those who'll tell me I'm not the man I used to be. But, then again, I never was.