As background, in my college days and beyond I had a group of friends that I met up with about 6 nights a week at Denny's. There was a core of 5 or 6 of us, and about that many more who may pop in to the restaurant for 'coffee and fries' on any given night (and girlfriends too when applicable).
So anyway as I reported a couple months ago my best friend growing up died of heart failure, he being 54.
Yesterday we discovered another member of our little group, Brian Hastings, has passed away, again 55 years old or so. He lived near Muskegon, MI and it was a rare treat when his always amusing arse would show up to Denny's -- he was probably the least attended person. But he was called "Uncle Buck" long before any movies or anything, so I am missing Uncle Buck and as usual have the few posts we shared on FB the past couple years to remember. He had in fact been an enigma for 5+ years, no one really knowing what had happened to him until one of us discovered his wife (we didn't even know he got married - 2011) posted some photos along with his name. Then we all converged on him and got to talking like old times.
Not sure what was wrong but apparently he had some medical issues, his wife posted 'no more pain'. Obviously esoteric, but what does it matter.
So now we've lost 2 of our Denny's gang in a matter of two months.
RIP my friend.