These things I wish on this, the final day of regular Auto Tunes blogging:

1. That TGOTS and I had arranged for her splendid final post to be the splendid final post, because it is so splendid. Anything I add can only be an anticlimax.

2. That Boz Scaggs was not the artist sending us on our way. But how could I resist the “one more for the roooaaaadd” refrain of “Lido”?

In truth, everything I heard this morning seemed tinged with Auto Tunes meaningfulness: The “you don’t have to go” pleading of Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Mak’er” (another in the long list of songs I know whose titles I know, but never can seem to pair properly); the “don’t go breakin’ my heart” perkiness of Mr. John and Ms. Dee; and George Thorogood’s insistent, growly  “who do you love?”

Who do I love? I’ll tell you who I love: This blog and its handful of followers! The artists who provided fodder for our flights of fancy! The family and friends who have given me cause to write about them, knowingly or unknowingly, and given me so many fine memories to dredge up!

But mostly, of course, TGOTS — she came up with the idea for this blog, set it up, and made it real. She is determined to flex her writing muscles every chance she gets, to stop saying “someday” and make someday happen now. And she has been my bestest friend for nigh on thirty years — no easy feat.

We’ve allowed ourselves to ooze melodrama this week, and frankly it’s probably a good thing Thursday has come. We could all use a break. But as TGOTS has promised, we’ll be back from time to time. Like a bad Bob Seger chorus or a yummy Joe Perry riff, we’re just not that easy to shake.

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