My hobby is old enough to drink

Another very satisfying Bear Pride. After all these years, I think I finally have my expectations calibrated correctly for my experience to end up in the range "contented" to "pleasantly surprised". Among the pleasant surprises this time around were meeting a minor celebearty and having a catch-up session with old GLBers. Some people remembered me and some did not, but that was okay because I forgot several names and faces myself and people were super tolerant of that (at least to my face).

Of course, there was the awkwardness of the "How's monshu?" questions. It was somewhat awkward giving updates to people who have been following his saga through my cryptic FB posts and have only the sketchiest knowledge of the details, but it was very awkward having to fill in people who knew nothing at all. Like Rubeus. He seemed genuinely upset to hear the news and wanted me to convey his condolences to the Old Man. Which leaves me with a dilemma, of course, since if he were really that concerned he could break his longstanding avoidance of us and convey them himself, so is telling monshu simply going to open old wounds?