No, really . . .

is January 2015 really coming to an end . . . something I guess I never really thought might happen . . . so many of my friends gone before the date . . . including our former forthright friend (and self described, "hardhead") . . . may the justices of the universe see fit to lend him assistance in what follows . . . (or else, quite simply, he'll need to make his own path, as he always did . . . )