Doing much better than my last posts.

I learned to drive stick shift, went for a nice long hike in the desert, saw bear tracks, explored a wonderful used book store for several hours, swam, read a lot, ate some cake for my birthday, went for a run, ran into a cactus (ouch!), and now I am going to go swim some more and read some more. Hey, and now I can go buy and smoke a cigar, buy a lottery ticket, and get a tattoo... although I probably won't do any of that today, but I could.