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I’m having my snow tires taken off today. That means that tomorrow should see the last major snow storm of the season.

The best brother in the world deserves the very best. So tonight I will dine with my friends Kate and Lenny. It is Lenny’s birthday also. I will share with him that which makes us happy and think of my brother the entire time I’m enjoying it all. 

The thing I don’t understand, though, is how Sippy keeps getting older and I don’t. Tis a mystery.

Why not? One more thing checked off my bucket list. And I do mean a real tattoo. The henna one on my hand was me testing the waters. The one on my shoulder is the real deal,

I’m still so puzzled. You made $15 billion worldwide last year, $5 billion in America. I didn’t make quite that much. But I paid taxes and you didn’t. What is wrong with that picture? Now that the Supreme Court has recognized you as a person, shouldn’t you have to feel the same pain as we do?

Let’s be perfectly honest. There are lots of things about getting older that are just not very pleasant. When packing to travel now, my biggest concern is making sure I have enough of my prescription drugs to get me through the trip.

Getting older means there are more days behind you than ahead of you. It means that the sounds you once mocked your parents for making when they rose from the couch are now coming out of your mouth as you get out of your car. Getting older means that going to Vegas and staying up until 1 AM

I thinking it says something about you when you are walking with a friend through a hotel lobby and suddenly stop and have to ask her if you remembered to comb your hair. I think it says something about your hair when your friend has to stare at it intently for a minute or so trying to decide. I think it says something about you that you have to ask the question in the first place. And no, I’d rather not know what it says. Ignorance is bliss.

And I know now that I do not need to ever worry again about how I dress. I have seen the worse. I am not even a contender.

I depart from Vegas today bloody but unbowed. I still have my laptop. I still have my dignity…ok, maybe on that one – after all, this is Vegas. And I still have my (now somewhat diminished) savings account. I win! 

… and I have not yet had to hock my laptop to pay for the penny slots.

You have not won yet, Las Vegas!

My friend Leslie and I have been through a lot together. It’s one of the benefits of living to old age. You get to have a lot of memories and a lot of laughs and you start not to care who’s looking. I don’t think anyone would have ever thought the two of us would end up being such good friends. Our lives have been very, very different. Yet somehow, through it all, we found out that we could laugh and talk and cry together and feel perfectly good about life. And, of course, the occasional drink to help it