Yes! .. It’s my birthday .. I know ! .. I can hardly believe it myself.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to “bore the pants off of you” with tales about “the good old days” etc. If you want that, just go to the righthand sidebar and click on almost any date in the ‘archives’ to get a glimpse of this grumpy old git’s life in those “days of yore” (I told you that I was old).
I have to say that when I observe today’s “high-tech”, but “dumbed-down” way of life, I feel lucky to have been around during a bygone era, which wasn’t exactly like living in some utopia, but neither was it the crude world that so many moronic and egotistical people seem to live in today.
Having said that, I’m off to open my presents. Unfortunately they are unlikely to include …
… a time machine !
bigjohn 
