And thanks for the Christmas card Jim. I was busy dealing with my sisters passing, including her cremation and arrangement for her burial at the Military cemetery in Portland (she’s a Navy Vet), my excuse for not responding 
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The one good thing that has happened is that I lost 40 lbs. since the end of October, the 40 lbs. I had gained since moving to the Northwest from SoCal ten years ago. I had to buy new pants! Levi now offers their original shrink-to-fit 501’s in black, with contrasting goldish stitching. Very Rockabilly looking, like guitarist JD McPherson in the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant videos. Gotta make cuffs so the inside of the canvas shows.