day no. 16,437: forty-five

Today, I turn forty-five years old.

Here's to hoping the band is still on the field and that I've got at least forty-five left on the clock!

"The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive." — G. K. Chesterton