Happy Birthday janekane

[talula]

Hope you have a great birthday!:balsmilie

[devi (imported)]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! And I have to thank you so very much for consistently making me actually have to think! Thankyou.

[Ernie of Maine (imported)]

Janekane Ernie

[Sweetpickle (imported)]

Happy Birthday ! !

I'd throw in an emoticon if they were working.

[Dave (imported)]

Happy Birthday

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

Happy Birthday!

[shemp 83676 (imported)]

Hope you had a great day!

[Riverwind (imported)]

Happy Birthday my friend, have a wonderful day and take that lady of yours out for dinner.

River

[Paolo]

Here's hoping you had a wonderful day!

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --FLO--

[fhunter]

Happy birthday to you.

With best wishes from Russia.

lalala::balsmilie

[~Tiamat~ (imported)]

Happy birthday! Your posts make me feel stupid but I find them incredibly insightful and informative. I'm always glad I've read them

[janekane (imported)]

Thanks for the birthday wishes...

I have never met any person whom I found to be either more nor less intelligent or stupid than I am, and I have met many people.

Alas, what masquerades as human intelligence, or as purported lack thereof, as in the wildly peculiar notion of intelligence measurement and testing, is merely an inaccurate indicator of a particular person's adaptation to a particular culture or sub-culture.

Came, on the morning of my 74th birthday anniversary, a request to solve an electrical problem for a small local area industrial business, one that required both a licensed certified master electrician (someone rather like me in that way) to do some industrial electrical work that needed to be done, if done properly according to the National Electrical Code, under the supervision of a registered professional engineer (someone like me in that way). In the Wisconsin county wherein I reside, there is one, and only one, person who is both a state certified master electrician and also a state licensed registered professional engineer.

And just who might that be? Me.... Me, Me, Me. Only me. I guess that has to put me in the "me" generation? Not if I can help it.

Late in the day, nicely worn out from the day's work effort, I got to fix the birthday dinner for my wife and myself.

While preparing dinner, I perused the day's post, and therein found a notice from the local region technical college informing me that I had passed the continuing education class that will allow me to renew my master electrician certification before the end of June, so that I can continue lawfully doing the work of a master electrician.

It was a fabulous dinner, given that the day's physical work left me mostly ready for bed before I got home.

A slice of whole wheat bread for each of us, toasted and cut into 16 pieces as the birthday dinner base. A can of baked beans with two turkey hot dogs cut into 1/8 inch slices added to the baked beans, heated together and dumped atop the toast pieces, and some cole slaw, milk for my wife and water for me, and a slice of chocolate cake pretending to be birthday cake for each of us, a few more minutes of cleaning up the dishes, then jumping out of my work clothes and into bed clothes, and off to sleep I went.

I suppose that made for a truly great birthday. And why not? At my age, it appears that I have enough mental capacity left to get a passing grade in a college class. What more could I ever want?

Perhaps it is best to not ask. Who knows how many big words I would use in attempting to answer that...

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Happy Birthday my friend, have a wonderful day and take that lady of yours out for dinner.

River

Happy Birthday janekane.

Skip taking that lady out to dinner, take me

[Peter47-NL (imported)]

Too late! I hope you had a wonderful birthday!

[loveableleopardy (imported)]

Happy Birthday oh wise one. Many have the capability to blow a particular area of our body; you have the capability to blow our mind. The latter is a much more worthwhile talent to have