[Dan in Pasadena]

Hi Matt, Long time no talk, how's things?

You know, all the platitudes about enjoying life.....they're pretty much all true. I find trite sayings annoying and doubly so when they turn out to be true but in the case of enjoying life I find myself thinking about them more and more.

I honestly hope there is an afterlife. There are a lot of people I want to see. One of whom is my Dad and with the hindsight of being a man now nearly as old as he was when he died, I want to say, "Dad...what the hell was all THAT about?!"

My big deal is I don't want to get truly old - say 75 or older or be nearing death and have many regrets. Regrets suck, they really do. There are a lot of things that strike me as not being "for me"...but I am reconsidering a bunch of them.