I'll be 59

[Daniel]

in 2 hrs.

I'm more excited about Labor Day.

I'm such a nerd.

I have no plans for my birthday and that's the way I want it.

I'm glad it's not my 60th birthday.

It's not that I don't want to be 60.

It's not that I think there's a dime's worth of difference between being 59 and being 60.

It's that it's been a tough if great year and I'm glad I don't need to think about any "landmark" x0 birthday.

Cheers.

[jon-nyc]

Happy Birthday!

I’ll be 58 on Thursday.

[Mik]

Bah. You kids get off my lawn.

Daniel, you might be surprised. I HATED 50 and was dreading 60. But I found 60 a most enjoyable age for reasons known only to God. I really liked 70 too.

[CHAS]

@jon-nyc It gets better (snicker)

[Daniel]

Mik, I liked 50. I thought- I've survived for half a century. I doubt I like it care much about any other x0 birthdays. I wish I similar feelings about aging or maybe I do. I'm look forward to making the most of the time I have left and it's an exceptional time in my life now. I'm not looking forward to getting old, getting sick, or dying.

I never liked the idea of dying. My saint of mother sat me down one day and explained life and death. People die. Dogs die. I freaked out, crying and the rest of it. I think I was 3.

Thank God my father was a realist. He's the one who was the strong, calm person in the family when there was a loss.

This was from when his mother died when I was 17 unit my sister several years ago.

Here I can only point you to my sig line you know I lifted from you. : ;

[Mik]

Bowie said it all.

Changes
David Bowie
Oh, get up
Mm

Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild, a million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So, I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test

(Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes) turn and face the strange (ch-ch-changes)
Don't wanna be a richer man
(Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes) turn and face the strange (ch-ch-changes)
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me but I can't trace time

Ooh, yeah

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and
So, the days float through my eyes but still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

(Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes) turn and face the strange (ch-ch-changes)
Don't tell them to grow up, or out of it
(Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes) turn and face the strange (ch-ch-changes)
Where's your shame? You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me but you can't trace time

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah, changes are taking the pace I'm going through

(Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes) turn and face the strange (ch-ch-changes)
Ooh, look out you rock 'n rollers
(Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes) turn and face the strange (ch-ch-changes)
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me but I can't trace time
I said that time may change me but I can't trace time

[CHAS]

@Mik Did not know Bowie could write like that. Impressed.