One small step for mankind

AJ is forty-two today. He has had a difficult week, getting rather overwhelmed with all kinds of boring things to do with cars, file servers and someone called Fedora who sounds like a bitch. Even so, I asked him, "How does it feel to be forty-two?" He thought about this and replied, "Well, it's about twice as good as it felt to be twenty-one." Which is rather good, I thought. We went round to my folks' for tea, where I drank ginger beer and became dangerously talkative. I really wish I would shut up sometimes. You too? Oh. I will in a sec, but I did want to mention that Alexander took his first step! He was exactly nine months old yesterday. He actually took two steps before sitting down again. He did this twice in one day. He is catching up fast.