Yep, it’s true. I turned 49 today. Somehow aging has never bothered me. I feel like I am still young and carefree. It’s sort of a VW bus state of mind, no hurries or worries, slow and steady getting from point A to point B.  I recentlly read in a book something interesting, “Life is not about any particular achievement or experience. The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.” I think this is true about all of us. I have done some noteworthy things in my life (and some not so noteworthy) but in the end, it all boils down to who I am and what I have become. I think I have become a joyful, happy person. In the end, I think that the sum total of my 49 years on this earth so far has been good. Sure there are hard times. I often tell myself that if life were perfect, life would be pretty darn boring. Priorities change, life happens, to quote Gunny Highway, “You have to adapt, improvise, and overcome.” The you that you become is never a finished product, but is a work in progress constantly changing, shifting, and moving.

On a lighter note.  I got to go have my favorite burger, The Hunger Buster, at DQ. Yeah! 

Oh and of course Annie joined us for the celebration.

And most importantly, my lovely wife. (She’s such a trooper, even though she has the crud and feels very under the weather, she indulged my need for a DQ burger) Love ya baby.