dillon wrote:Feliz cumpleanos, mi amigo! Cuantos anos tiene ahora?
Cincuenta y tres. (At least that's what Google's translators call 53. I have some basics in several western European languages along with some theoretical grounding in Latin but am otherwise a complete and utter monoglot.)
To WSherman: Interestingly I do not
feel like I'm 53. I still have the curiosity and capacity to be amazed by the world around me that I did when I was a child, and all the intervening years have done is help fill in some of the immediate questions -- but I can still be amazed and feel the wonder of things around me. I suppose when I lose that trait it'll mean that "the time is getting close".
To everybody else, thank you so much for your warm comments. I'm humbled.
The best part is that it looks like 2014 is the dawn of a new day, and I'm pretty much back to being my old self. Life, once again, is pretty good.
Cheers!