Thanks for the birthday wishes, y'all. It was pretty great. My bro and his girlfriend took me to see "Unbroken" which was amazing. Pretty hard to watch at times. You could hear a pin drop in the theater. He was one tough son of a gun. Seeing everything the guy went through and survived (physically as well as emotionally, apparently) makes one put things in perspective. Turning 48 is nothing. :-)
Well, that, and I got the really bad crap over and done with pretty early on. Before I turned 21, I had cancer and 2 spinal cord injuries. So everything after that is just gravy bonus time. I have 45 linear inches of scars, chronic migraine headaches, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. It sucks. I need something to celebrate so it might as well be my birthday. :-)