Birthday

Well I turned 43 yesterday.
My eyesight is fading, my back/neck is messed up so I guess age is catching up to me. Its strange how I Can "GO, GO,GO!" when I'm on the road crossing multiple time zones in a week and spending as little as 24 hours per city before moving on to the next meeting/dinner/airport.
These past couple of days I've had little to do and have done little more than sleep. I did spend one afternoon drinking beer in the sun on Queen street in Toronto with an old pal- jeeze Donald that almost killed me!.
I guess the message is when you slow down, you really SLOW down.
I'd resolved to mark this birthday with some sort of review of past mistakes and form a plan to avoid them in the future. I do that every year without any disernable impact. I didn't do that this year. I tend to be impulsive. Its a strength and weakness. I believe recent history's mistakes are just bad luck rather than "mens rea" (I'm sure the spelling is wrong). I guess the point is that I'm just going to resolve to continuing to attempt to exert influence on things rather than be buffeted by circumstance.
At the risk of straying into self-help speak, I believe its more important to try and do something rather than wring your hands and give in to fate. Mistakes will continue to be part of the landscape.
Sermon over.
This time next month I'll be in Seoul and China and back on the treadmill.
Before that I'll be back in Toronto this weekend, with friends, old and new! It doesn't look like I'll make NYC this trip, but should get over in early August on my way to Asia as I have taken over the United Nations business for the company.
I wonder if Kofi will remember me? I met him once along with his son at a reception before the oil for food/Iraq/Scandal. He was quite a nice chap though he had no idea who I was (come to think of it I was an interloper/gatecrasher at the party). I won't be dealing with him anyway.......
I've updated this entry and corrected a few mistakes on the original post. I'll take some pics in Toronto and update next week sometime.
One year older and none the wiser!
Hope all of you are well!
T