Leave it to me. Not just a new year to think about, (although I admit I have been,) but....what's current? A little side-trip to the ER to have a couple of Kidney stones removed; again. If you were there for the first round, that was about 7 years or so ago. I don't even recall at the moment. but this is gettin' old. Old to the point where I gotta start thinking about things like diet, and stress level, and all the crap that comes with being over 40. Ugh. Just when you figured bifocals (or worse,) were the living end; unh uh. Things are still going pretty well, overall, although there's probably at least a few people who'd beg to differ. But I'm still standing, and I still have the capacity to be better, so the idea that today wasn't a particularly good day is pretty much all relative. I keep my hope. That line from Marshall Crenshaw keeps coming to mind; compared to what's behind, this is easy. I've come to realize, though, that there's probably a lot more that needs looking after, especially in the wake of changing my whole life, than I may have been aware of before. Lots of things are going to either require attention, or simply die. And in a great many instances, I ain' about to let that happen. Rack 'em up.

And after some thought, of course, after having lived through a year like 2008, there's only one proper toastmaster, and one conceivable toast in such circumstances. Tevye, from "Fiddler on the Roof," wishing us all "La Chaim!" To life, indeed.