I have become 29. To celebrate, you get my photo.

Yes, I know 29. I once used to say “but I still feel 16!” Now I say “but I still feel 26!” But to be truthful, I have felt 45 since I started high school.

No No, that is not true. I have felt like I am my own age, but in the 50s, since I was in highschool. “What are those crazy kids up to now?” I would ask the unhearing occupants of a lowered Honda Accord with more decibles than horsepower. In my day the kids all drove jeeps left over from the war…

So I am not really surprised that I am about to enter my 30s. I have a sweet sweet wife, one sweet son, am excellent puppy and a condo. I even have something to do each morning, fulfilling the need for marine appliances all over the world! But there is so much to do!

Wm Ernest Henley dis not say ” I am the Third Mate of my fate/ I am the bosun of my soul”. No! He said he was the captain. I am promoting myself to Captain from now on. Captain Wm. Tomkinson of the Indiaman “Hubris”. Stand-by to reef topsail halyards! Beat to quarters!

Well I’ll let Briana be the skipper sometimes too. We are in the same boat now you know.