Another birthday? Consider the alternative.

I don't REALLY feel older today, but the calendar (made up, as many of you know of several CALENDS) says so. Actually it doesn't really SAY so---just like a clock or a watch which shows (or TELLS) the passing of hours and minutes rather than days weeks and months. "Telling" seems to indicate verbalization, but telling is an old word that refers to the telling ot the hours by the TOLLING of a bell as when no-one had a watch or a clock.
Bank TELLERS tell or toll money by counting it--sort of like counting the hours and days of a life. :Why, if I had a dollar for every day of my life, i'd have (here I leave the page to get to my calculator to let it TELL me exactly how many minutes and hours there are in 68 years) Hi!!! I'm back with this happy news---68 years is 24820 days which is equal to 595680 hours or 35740800 minutes and a HUGE bunch of seconds. See, I told you my age by TOLLING up the time segments and telling you on this blog. Wasn't that a bunch of fun????
I am dwelling less and less on health problems as things with my total knee replacement are going well and my abdominal incision is SLOWLY healing, but I am surely NEVER looking forward to any more operations.. 36 major ones and sever minor ones is quite enough, thank you. Sometimes I wonder how I can bear up so well and be such a "WONDERFUL, KIND, THOUGHTFUL, CONSIDERATE, SWEET, LOVABLE GUY AS I AM. I can only put it down to having been born of this day of love-ST. VALENTINE'S DAY in 1941 when the world was at war but all i knew was the love of my parents. Sure glad the love part won out and not the was part. I Love my wife and family more than I can say and more than I deserve!!