One More Orbit

One more orbit but not yet an obit. 

Today I celebrate #77. There will be no dancing, but I am here to wave my virtual hands to all and sundry.

On Friday, we went out with friends for birthday breakfast.

Flowers at the table.

You can see Bob taking the picture in the far mirror.

I had the Chefs Bowl. This is my normal selection. When I say "normal," I mean several times a year. So I indulge.

It is not often that my birthday falls on Labour Day. Indeed, my actual birth day in 1947 was the day afterwards although I think both mother and son laboured in their own ways. School starts on the day after Labour Day, and as far as I can recall, I've only had to labour in the classroom once on Labour Day.

In wild celebration, I shall do two September 02 Sudoku puzzles on my app – this year's and the 2022 puzzle. 

That might take some explaining, but it's simple. Although I have played a lot of sudokus, I didn't start doing the daily challenge until sometime in 2023. Until then, I had selected a random puzzle, usually a hard or medium difficulty level. Since then, as well as playing the daily puzzle, I have also been working backwards to complete former daily puzzles of 2023 and 2022. When I got back to the September 02 2022 puzzle, i decided to leave it for today even though I am otherwise past it in June 2022.

Yes, I am weird. And No, I will not go back to 2021 once I have completed 2022. At that time, I shall most likely continue to do the current daily puzzle and probably a randomly generated one or two.

We will get together with the younger ones at suppertime. Let me tells ya that it is quite a crowd when all five of us throng together, ;)  There is one more person in our little family, but that child is thousands of miles away. This is what happens when two Only children (my parents) have an Only (me), and I only have two kids, one of whom remains childless. In fact, my surname will die with me although there are others in the world who are named Rayner. I have personally only met two Rayners in my whole 77 years. They were brothers whom I taught.

By odd coincidence, it is also that far-flung child's birthday today. I received quite a birthday gift back in 1978.

early 90s probably

I couldn't help announcing myself and seeking your approbation, and I'll probably have an update tomorrow of all of my wondrous doings of today.

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