The Big One

Well, it's not really The Big One, but tomorrow is my birthday and I am inching ever closer to The Big One. You know, the one where people give you black balloons and put "Over the Hill" signs in your front yard?

I try not to let silly numbers affect me. Yet they do:

• My age.
  
• The number of homeless people.
  
• My weight.
  
• The number of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  
• Money.
  
• The size of my pants.
  
• The number of dogs and cats that are euthanized each day.
  
• How many goals Ilya Kovalchuk has scored this year.
  

Obviously the numbers I worry most about are the numbers that are, clearly, the most trivial. Perhaps if I -- I daresay we -- spent less time on unimportant numbers and more on the other ones I'd be better off. For sure.

More pictures coming up in the Photo Albums