Tomorrow's Ground Hog Day

I am leaving early today. Tomorrow is my birthday and I am working late, I have the Russians tomorrow night so I am planning on leaving an hour early picking up Chinese on the way home and watching Bones on Fox. I am sort of electing to dodge all the family stuff for a bunch of reasons but mostly timing and funding. Tomorrow everyone will be working, after work I have my meetings which would make a long pleasant dinner untenable and money is just not out there this year to spend a lot on someone like me would just be down right irresponsible. When a person is nearly 55 years old, and a dad figure one has to take issues like this into consideration. When you are the oldest you take more bullets for the tribe…I’s just the way it is. When I tried to get out of the celebration all together Dianne kept saying, “ But this is your 55th! 55 LIKE THIS IS A WATERSHED YEAR! It feels like just another year to me. I don’t necessarily feel older nor do I feel I will feel way old either when I turn 60—IF I am fortunate to live so long.

Items to consider for those who feel obligated to gift me—you don’t but IF you want, consider: Certificates to Barns and Noble, Amazon.com or any other online bookhouse; Red Lobster, Macaroni Hell, CompUSA.

I know this is a short entry but HEY it’s almost my birthday