I CANNOT believe I turn 55 today. 55 was my magical number to……

Happy Birthday sweetheart.

Look at you white knighting and old lady catfish.
Pathetic.

My uncles died in their 50s.

I'm just happy I've made it to 63. My best friend from High School died at 50 years old.

Happy birthday!

Hmm.. when 55 our youngest was age 6 with Aspergers from her childhood vaccines. That was the year we moved to Hawaii. Excellent location to raise her in.

Yeah, the numbers.

I'll be sixty tomorrow, and I feel like I've passed my expiration date.

It has been unseasonably warm up to now, but they are reporting a change in the temperature to a high of 62 degrees the day after my birthday, which was 1962.

I was in pretty good shape when I was your age, but I lost everything, went homeless, and struggled ever since - over-stressed and unable to deal with things like dental problems, which can cause heart problems, and such. Loss of sleep doesn't help much either.

So, it has been a pretty fast decline.

But I would attribute it to poverty more than anything else.

Hmm? That looks lethal.

In India you,d still be having babies

I lost it at the very sarcastic "happy birthday".

- still would -

You were born in '67
The year of 'Sgt. Pepper'
And 'Are You Experienced?'...

School terms are the measuring stick that I use, too.

In first grade, time moved slowly. We had six week grading periods, and that was forever. But I wasn't all that aware of grading periods, even after getting the first report card. It was just something that happened once in a great, great while.

By the time I was in high school, they'd changed to nine week grading periods, two per semester. Nine weeks was a long time, especially in fall, but nowhere near as long as six weeks had been.

Then, in "real life", weeks fly by. Months fly by. Some weeks are longer than others, but viewed as a fraction of your life, a year is shorter now than a week was when you were three years old.

Can't do much about it.

Heard a nasty rumor.

Hopefully it's false.

Have a nice one.