Well…there were a couple of deaths in the news today that I wanted to talk about…Al Unser of the famous Unser racing family died yesterday at the age of 82….Al was one of the characters that was in racing when I first started to follow it, especially at Indy and for 30 years he was still part of the scene…a great driver that could race anything and won in Nascar, Indycar, USAC, and on dirt and pavement…very smooth style and a personality to go with it. The second one was a little surprising to me when I read that Mike Nesmith of the Monkees died today at the age of 78….I remember the Monkees fondly and his dry wit on the tv show was something that I liked even at 12 years old….born a rich kid and heir to the Liquid Paper fortune….okay most of you probably don’t even remember Liquid Paper but those of us that came of age when typewriters were the only way to do school papers sure do, you would never know that he was a rich kid and I think he was the only one of them who could actually play an instrument when the group was formed for tv….this is starting to happen much too often as I age….more and more people who have been fixtures in life are disappearing at an accelerated rate….not too cool…RIP guys….