Uh-Oh. It's the Big Four-Oh. The Beginning of The End. And all that other horsepucky. But I suppose Age 40 IS a milestone, as The Culcha seems to have made it so. That said, I’m sure Sam will agree with me that turning 40 is, in the end, much ado about nothing much… speaking strictly about the age thing, of course. His birthday is rather special to me and a lot of other folks, as well.
About the pics… The top pic is Sam and the Love of His Life… Alisa. I purloined this pic from Sam’s blog, so you’ll have to ask him when and where the photo was taken… but you’ll note the pic is most definitely seasonal. The second pic is Sam and four of his shipmates from the USS Monterey (CG 61), taken in 2004… somewhere on station in the Gulf. I got a kick out of the facial hair… definitely NOT “in regulation,” but allowed and encouraged, even, while deployed. The beards came off with the first port call, if I remember what I was told correctly. The Navy pic is a re-run, first posted (along with other Navy-type pics) back in 2006.
Happy Birthday Sam!
Great pictures!! Have a wonderful birthday, Sam!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Sam! We are almost birthday buddies. But I did not turn 40! lol
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful birthday Sam, '68 was a great year :)
ReplyDeleteHappiest of Birthdays Sam!!!
ReplyDeleteI am loving my 40s; I'm half way thru them and this is the best I've been in my entire life. It's all good.
Buck - glad to see you posting. Was getting a bit worried.
From the father of one Sam and the grandson of another, this Pat says...Happy Birthday Sam!
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your good wishes!
ReplyDeleteKris: I've really been under the weather for the last few, but as it's said: "this, too, shall pass."
And Susan... '68 was a VERY good year, in a LOT of respects! One of my best, when ya get right down to it. I was still young enough to be having more fun than is allowable by law and young enough to not care, both at the same time. That could have been a recipe for disaster, now that I look back on it. But it is what it is (and was)... innit?
Happy Birthday, Sam! I'll be up there (40) someday, but there's a few years to go yet.
ReplyDeleteBuck - enjoy the weather, enjoy a drink.
Thanks one and all for the B-day wishes... it was a great day!
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PS Inquiries... it's only a matter of time. ;)
It was one thing for me to turn 40 (and then 50), but for my children to turn 40 - that must be an odd feelilng.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Sam!
Happy Birthday, Sam! Your old man is one of the good ones. Since the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I assume you are, too!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Sam.... you don't look a day older than 30!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated Birthday, Sam! I follow you to the big 4-0 in a year-and-a-half...:)
ReplyDeleteLou sez: It was one thing for me to turn 40 (and then 50), but for my children to turn 40 - that must be an odd feeling.
ReplyDeleteEx-act-a-mundo! You don't really feel old until your kids are retirement-eligible (from the military, anyway).
Jim: Thank ya, Sir!!
Alison sez: Happy Birthday Sam.... you don't look a day older than 30!
And neither did I, at his age. It catches up with ya, though. Funny how that happens! :-)
Christina: Why... you young pup, you! :-)
Cool: Former MM mess-crankin' LCDR Tuber there wearing his dolphins.
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