[FamiliarFace]

*** they are priceless to my brother.***

Exactly right.

When I was a kid, I lived in Orlando for a few years. I went back to visit about 40 years ago, and it was stunning, the difference. Can’t imagine what it’s like now. I also can’t believe that was nearly 40 years ago when I visited. I don’t think I’m that old yet.

I’m always glad to learn there’s another TP & the HBs fan out there. With the magic of XM radio, I get to hear his voice nearly every day. Even five years later, it doesn’t seem real.

[Rockingham]

My brother and I went on a brief shopping errand tonight. As usual, he had the Tom Petty channel on XM and was wearing a Tom Petty cap. My brother was in Tampa at one of Tom Petty's last concerts and thought that he looked ill and seemed to limp. That was due to a broken hip that never healed properly and led to Petty's accidental overdose on pain meds.

Orlando has changed dramatically, but many of the settled old residential neighborhoods have endured almost untouched -- except for a ten to fifteen times run up in home prices over fifty years. The old Orlando courthouse is now a history museum, with my father's old courtroom as it was decades ago.