[philman_36]

...you are seeing something of a caricature of me, and I'll readily admit my once-zany sense of humor has been muted by the passage of time and the loss of many I held dear. I am not nearly as funny nowadays.
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[backhoe]

Yes, it's ironic how as life progresses you gain things, but at some point it reverses and becomes a process of loss. "Life has diminished me" became a byword some time ago.