Fifty-six years and what do you get? Another year older and....

well, pretty much the same amount of debt.

This month's been slow for some reason on the client payment front, which hasn't been helping, but most of the important stuff is taken care of.  We're paying off the major bills for the kitchen renovation on an 18-month-no-interest-big-asterisk basis; the big asterisk is that they need to get something every month or they backload the interest onto the whole deal.  I've been trying to do better than that and so far succeeding, and it remains on schedule to be out of our hair by the time next year when I go from one of my favorite baseball players-



- to one of my favorite condiments-



Thanks to everyone who sent cards, emails, messages and of course Facebook posts.  They've become ubiquitous but also harder to keep track of; you can't just read them in order on your newsfeed but wind up having to navigate through a separate balloon-ey window that pops up, along with their chosen Memories of your earlier Facebirthdays.

Which, at my age, are harder and harder to remember;)