anniversaries
Earlier this week I completed my 25,567th day of respiration, which caused me to spend an evening in the company of my local offspring and their partners consuming pleasant food and enjoying the usual crazy banter that passes for conversation at family gatherings.
Numerous friends seem to think it also a cause for some sort of congratulations, even though to me it's just another day which others seem to think auspicious.
A cause for some celebration was the presentation of a hand made card entitling self & $wife to a short train trip on the little island next door on the planet (airfares included) at a time of our choosing. It should be interesting revisiting a place I have no recollection of being at, given I left it at least 25,000 days ago, although I have been on an earlier incarnation of the train as a callow young lad of 15 summers...
Numerous friends seem to think it also a cause for some sort of congratulations, even though to me it's just another day which others seem to think auspicious.
A cause for some celebration was the presentation of a hand made card entitling self & $wife to a short train trip on the little island next door on the planet (airfares included) at a time of our choosing. It should be interesting revisiting a place I have no recollection of being at, given I left it at least 25,000 days ago, although I have been on an earlier incarnation of the train as a callow young lad of 15 summers...