Bob Weir Dies Again

One morning in 1983, I was sitting at a "lab table" in a high school science classroom, reading the day's newspaper. I looked across the table at my friend Victor Weir, and asked him "are you related to Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead? He just died of a drug overdose."

They weren't related, but the possibility that they were related is the only reason I remembered that incident circa 2000, when I got together with my Deadhead wife and eventually noticed that Weir was alive and well. Again. Not sure when the programmers re-combobulated our simulation's timeline and the cleanup algorithm failed to erase that from my memory, but it was sometime during that 17-year period.

He died yesterday. Again. RIP.