Aw, thanks, guys and gals. My wife and I went to a place that makes the best pancakes in town here in San Diego and I got full to bursting with buckwheat pancakes and sausage. She gave me a copy of "The FOrest for the Trees" to mak the occasion, a most delightful book on the intricacies of the writing mind. I love it.
She also made a grand flourish and presented me with "baby's first Medicare card"!!! LOL!!
As someone said on another thread, no matter which way you count it, you're still an old fart.
Fortunately I am not feeling very old. I have felt much older than I do now. I'm younger than that now, as the mad poet sayeth.