Welcome to Life After 40

Today is my 40th birthday. Hooray me. After a year of cracking jokes about being nearly dead, nearly old, and nearly obsolete, the day is finally here and I woke up and felt...the same.

Not that I really expected anything to change, but hey, you never know.

Not that any of this really has anything to do with the creation of this blog--I've been meaning to do so for years and finally decided to create a few days ago. I wanted to talk about everything in life that makes things enjoyable to live it...great movies and books, excellent beers, fine cigars, etc.

But when it came time to submit a name to Blogspot, I  drew a blank. Way back when, I wanted to call it Excelsior!  but that did not grab me anymore. I thought about "The Good Shit" but was not sure that fly. Predictably, thoughts of my failure to start a blog because I could not find a name for it made me think of turning 40 (cause that's all I think about, right).

So I started thinking that, even being 40, there are still things worth doing in life...basically, the same things as being 30 (yep, books, beer, cigars), so this was going to be about the things that make life worth living even after turning 40...

Which it turns out there are already a lot of blogs out there with "life after 40" worked into it, but fuck 'em. This is my blog, and I can steal it's title from somewhere else if I want to. It's not like anyone will be reading it =)

So happy birthday to me and welcome to my little slice of cyberspace. Kick off your shoes, sink into one of the big overstuffed chairs, and get ready to read about some of the great things out there (and some not so great things to avoid) that make live worth living...at any age.