Tom, my friend, my getting a year older pales against your day yesterday. Focus on your healing. Glad you feel up to bantering with the family. Good meds?
I'm reading "Happy Birthday Carol" Do we have a Carol in our family? Oh yeah, it's that lady from out California way. (Not "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena"? Nah.)
Happy Birthday to you, Carol anyway, even if you don't "drag race".
Little old lady from Escondido! With a Honda, not a Mustang. Though I used to drive a Mustang and did road course racing in a Mini Cooper and a Class B open wheel race car powered by a Volkswagen 1600cc engine on a track that incorporated a drag strip 40+ years ago in Arizona.
Sorry I missed that, so here is a belated very happy birthday. Youse is a good kid. (I remember that expression; I just cannot remember who said it.)
It must be something in the water.
After reading all that, and about the mini Coopers too (did you ever get into "Formula Vee"? I have a great birthday present to send you. PM me your mailing address.
Again, Happiest of birthdays to you, Carol, a real treat of a lady to know.