odditudes-and-weirdities

I've recently completed yet another trip around the sun. While this would be extremely notable if I did it in a spaceship, I did it the easy way: I stayed home and let the Earth do the work of making the journey for me. Similar to last year , I figured I'd update people with the (modest) events of the preceding year. Caveats : Let me set expectations. I'm never going to be confused with that Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World . (I'm actually probably on the other side of the boring/interesting spectrum.) Health : Like most people who've been kicking around for 6 decades or so, it's always something . The foot problems that had troubled me in previous years didn't cause much in the way of problems last year, perhaps due to a simple foot-stretching exercise I started doing. On the other hand, my left knee got very achy late last winter. Sometimes it'd feel like my knee was going to buckle on me even doing fairly banal activities like walking down