dduane

Happy Birthday! Today you turn 50 with your usual grace and style.

You will go far this year, traveling to far-flung places like Tokyo and Los Angeles. You will eat schweinshäxe in Munich, and petit salé in Paris, and pizza at Big Nick's in New York. (And probably something with a lot of chilies in it tonight, in Newbridge.) You will finally get that honeymoon you've been talking about (and after twenty years, it seems like a good idea to get it handled). And your career will take off a whole lot more (and of course you know why. Shame you can't tell everybody else about it for a while yet).

You have a wife who loves you more than anything. Even Switzerland. (Not that you don't know, but reminding you occasionally seems like a good idea.)

So go get dressed so we can go to the pub.

(smooch)