May I express my " Happy Birthday wishes too!" Always a great time to send well wishes to great people and friends !! Thank you James for being a good friend to Bill and " Moi" ;-) I did see a post on FB , not sure of the actual day, I'm guessing the 27 th? We will toast to you, James!!! Promise... We will miss you at dinner! The countdown to Cali has begun... I'm so excited!!! Cheers!! Many happy birthday wishes to you, Bill!!! You were my mentor from the start and I'll always be grateful for all of the help and advise .. You are a special person! Mahalo!!!! Laura

Ty for the birthday wishes. We never did anything special. We had gone out on New Year's Eve and tomorrow night we are going out for Steak.

I told of some of mine over on the welcome to AMY365 thread. Not much of great moment on the Friday ... but son and partner took me to a country and western band on Sat night. They're cousins - John P. Allen is the M.C. and gets his body and movements into it, and his face moves a good deal related to what he's doing. He played fiddle with the "Prairie Oyster" band for several years and recently has done a number of his own gigs. His sister, a doc, plays string bass and brother, fiddle, mandolin and trumpet were involved, and the young ones of the first two: the main female singer is taking nursing and quite vivacious - adds a good deal to the presentation. They attend one church where I go - the one which I went to as a child. The men's group in the other church had a tour of Labatt's Brewery on Monday night, so it's been an interesting weekend. ole joyful

In my opinion the best is yet to come. 40 is the beginning of everything, maturity, knowledge, and not giving a d&%$ what anyone else says.