Another Year Older

March 2 was birthday #56. What a number! Becky and I were too tired to do any birthday stuff on the 2nd (Friday), although she did make a cake, and I got my traditional birthday serenade from Jeffrey. I wish we had been recording these every year. What he can do to the birthday song! And every year is different!

So we mostly did my birthday on Saturday, which started off with the KU-Oklahoma basketball game which we were afraid KU was going to lose, the way the first half went, but the KU boys rallied in the second half and pulled it out. We had supper at Carlos O’Kelly’s, and I got some birthday presents later at home, including a radio controlled airplane I’ll have to wait to fly until warmer weather. It’s not exactly an indoor toy.

I remember when I thought I had 20 years to save up for retirement. What I have for retirement now is the same as what I had 20 years ago! Oh well. So now I’m 56 and only have maybe 10 years to work with. Hmm, gonna have to do something different, but I sure don’t know what it’ll be. If anybody has any ideas, let me know!

YouTube

I’m gonna have to get more “hip” and get tuned in to YouTube. People are now sending me somewhat (though not truly gut-busting) humorous links that turn out to be YouTube creations. When I visited the YouTube site, it seemed to me YouTube had grown to phenomenal proportions in a phenomenally short time. I used to think I was pretty much up to speed with the cutting edge on the internet, but I can see I’ve actually been left in the dust. Thing is, I just don’t know where people find the time to “partake” of all this stuff! You could sit down at your computer in the morning and be there all day by the time you make much headway checking out the latest YouTube offerings, the latest hot blog offerings, the latest…. etc. etc. Anyway, the latest one somebody wanted me to look at was Gollum & Smeagol Sing Barry White, which doesn’t really do that much for me. Another one was this one about Laughter is Contagious which takes a little while to start getting to you but it sort of eventually gets you going.