I have no idea how to go about thanking more than a thousand people for birthday wishes today via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, my e-mailbox and a few other means of communication. I was thinking of doing a big cut-n'-paste like this…
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
…and continuing 'til I had over a thousand and I'd tell everyone, "Your 'Thank you' is in there. You'll have to find it yourself." But yeah, that would be really stupid and if you were nice enough to wish me a Happy Birthday, I shouldn't insult your intelligence by pretending you'd fall for it. So I'll just say this…
Everyone asked me today what it's like to hit the big seven-oh and be seventy years of age. It's remarkably like it was yesterday when I was sixty-nine and nothing at all like what I once thought seventy would be like. Seems to me that people waste way too much time fretting about what some older age will be like. I was certainly wrong. I don't feel seventy with the exception of my knees which feel 108 years old some days. I appreciate all the good thoughts…and if you're worrying about what it'll be like to be some older age, maybe you'll appreciate me telling you that I thought it would be worse than it is and maybe you too will find out it ain't that bad.