And thanks to all for your kind wishes.

And now a bit of useless trivia:

I do not know what time of day I was born. There is no place to enter such data on my official birth certificate. I once asked my parents about it. I no long recall who said which but one believed it to be around midnight, the other about 3am. I wish I'd thought to ask why they thought as they did. Too late now.

I was born at home. This was not by choice. Rather, a severe winter storm hit our area, burying ground and roads in deep snow, preventing a drive to the nearest hospital, which while not terribly distant wasn't all that close either. One of the town's doctors was called in to perform the delivery. (Our town was too small to boast of anything other than a few general practitioners.)

The house I was born in stood for many years, little changed. It was eventually torn down and replaced by a low-income housing unit that by and large rests on the same foundation, or at least occupies the same general area as the old foundation. I have no personal memory of living in that house, though it holds sentimental value for me. (I believe it was torn down around a decade ago but might be wrong. My brother is likely to recall more of this. He has a better memory for this sort of thing than me.)

Though in town, in those days our house had no street name/number. My birth certificate has two slots for this info. One is for the hospital or general address of birth, which is filled in as HOME, <CITY>, <STATE>. The other is for street address, which is filled in as BOX <xxx>. (The first home I consciously recall living in, in that same town and so far as I know still standing, had/has a conventional street address.)

It prolly goes without saying that the data on my certificate is entered by pen or, less likely, pencil.

Here I made everyone here Birthday Brownies...enjoy.

Happy Birthday to hazmick! Here's wishing you all the best.