I’m sitting with a glass of wine – in front of the Olympics – with a small group of dogs at my feet. The rest of the family are in the city. Kerry went back in to have dinner with the sisters and Chris went back in to hang with friends tonight for their birthday. Me? I’m tired. Chris was in before with his friend Mike and I to see a Broadway play. It was my first play on Broadway since I left over two years ago. We saw a preview of the new Martin McDonagh play A Behanding In Spokane. It was very entertaining, though not as dark and biting as some of my favorite McDonagh’s plays. And Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell are well worth the ticket price. Both are terrific and very funny.

And I have a cold. That’s the main reason I’m tired. We all had a cold. Kerry started it. I tried to stay away but the germs were very powerful. So now – I sneeze. It sucks. It also sucks that I have not had a job interview yet. Granted – I have been very selective about what I apply to, but honestly. This needs to change very soon. Very soon…

This is all by way of saying that I am getting on a plane tomorrow to Amsterdam. Sick, exhausted and anxious is the ONLY way to sit in economy for seven hours. There is nothing like the feeling of being cramped and unable to breathe at several thousand feet in the air. But we have to go… because I’m turning 50. And for some reason I want to turn 50 in one of my favorite cities. Why not? I’ve had plenty of birthdays in New Jersey, Boston and Milford. This will make up for the two I had to have in Kuwait.

I have no issues with turning 50. It’s a number. There are more numbers to come. You just have to make the most of them. And hopefully I can.

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