2013-08-09 – I’m on vacation this week, so I missed my usual posts, but I couldn’t pass up my 8-09 post. So here it is.

It is now officially one year since I relaunched my blog here at WordPress. It is also my 62nd birthday. Yes, yes, I know I don’t look it. But, good grief! It’s true. I could now take early retirement under Social Security. But that’s not going to happen. I still have  a kid in school. As I type this, he is busy snoring under the covers. As is the rest of the family.

We are in LA to celebrate my mother’s 85th birthday. We’ve been to the beach and we’re going hiking in the mountains. I found a nature preserve near the hotel and I’ll be walking there in a couple of minutes. People don’t walk here, but I’m not from here.

Sunday, we have a very early flight out. Then Monday its back to work.