The Taoists didn't have birthdays because they believed it might make you think you had to act a certain way. I try to forget my age. Some days I wake up and I am 80 and other days I wake up and am 23. It keeps things interesting!
You are SO very good with words, Brian.
I think it was reading your work that inspired my switch from the "serious" (dreaded self-helpy stuff) I first wrote here to the funnier work I tend to pen now. You are an inspiration!!