Dispatches From the Fortress – Day 356

As I celebrate my birthday and we seem to be creeping up on the one-year anniversary of me staying home most of the time…

Thanks to all for the nice notes and e-mails and shout-outs I'm getting for making it to 69 years old. I have to think about what I'm going to do a year from now when I hit the big Seven-Oh. Maybe I'll declare an end to my current second-childhood and start on my ninth or tenth second-childhood.

And maybe Facebook will be redesigned so that when I have a thousand public messages, I can navigate my way through all of them instead of only finding about a fourth of them. I can't be the only person who has this problem.

Not a lot to report here today except that I'm grateful for all the communications. Thanks, all!