Strange Relationship

This afternoon, Glenn Frey died. In the past few days, we also lost David Bowie and Alan Rickman. Just bam-bam-bam. Enough already.

I saw the final Bowie album, Blackstar, pop up on my iTunes header and put it on a mental to-listen-to list; two days later, he was gone. Having bought and listened to the album a couple of times, my respect for Bowie has only grown. It's clear as anything a goodbye to his fans, and it is a damned good piece of work.

Rickman will always be the incomparable thief, Hans Gruber, for me. I love him as the Sheriff of Notthingham and Alexander Dane, of course, but Gruber ... just an incredible villain.

I joined a gym. HSC's fitness center is nice, but its hours and mine just don't line up all that well. Just walking/jogging for now; when I'm less huge, I'll move on to other activities.