AgReEd. FeLiZ cUpLiAñOs.
Happy Birthday to our “Most Treasured Guru”
Oh. Like, awesome, dude!
Or, in Brit-speak …
Allow me to present my heartiest congratulations on successfully negotiating another annual perambulation around the circuit of life.
Thinking about it, maybe it’s the other way round nowadays …
Y’know, after a certain point it seems as if the most fitting response to “Good to see you!” is, “It’s good to be seen.”
'Ang on … where’d I put me specs …
Ah. Thank you. That’s so much better.
I see you found my office pair …
That’s how you say “Awesome, dude” in Brit-speak? Geez, no wonder those British period dramas seem to go on forever.
ThAnK yOu, GeNtLeMeN! I’m now at the age when the idea that I’ll soon figure out why I’m really here on earth is beginning to wear pretty thin. So if anyone knows, now would be a good time to clue me in. 
Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know!
… no wait …
… it’s gone again …
Bacon. The answer is bacon.
Don’t let my wife see these. The personal remark that she likes the most is “I like your glasses”. Speaking of vision, yes, I agree, it is good to still be seen, although when the time comes that I am no longer seen, I doubt that I will care much one way or another.
I’d sing a birthday song but I don’t know how to up-load it so I’ll just post the first verse:
Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!
Doom and gloom and dark despair
Death and Destruction everywhere!
So Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!
You are just a zygote’s way of making more zygotes.
In which case, why have I wasted all this money on flutes? Huh?
Did it help you make more zygotes?
If so, that’s why. If not, then what
a waste (from the zygote’s point of
view).
Yeah, Dawkins’ selfish gene. In which case, I’ve definitely failed pretty miserably. Well, at least as far as I know. 
See now that’s interesting, isn’t it? The flute hasn’t helped … yet. 
But the fiddle certainly did some years ago.
Happy Birthday Bud. I hope it was a good one! 