It's my fortieth birthday today and I have plenty of things I want to say about this milestone, but we're kind of slammed at work today and we're going out for a little dinner tonight (there's a bigger thing on Saturday at our house -- if you know where that is, you're invited :-) so I don't have time to capture all my thoughts right now. I'll just say that this is generally a time in one's life when you fugure you're on the road to a certain level of maturity. No one knows that better than my wonderful wife, which is why she got me these hats from The Crow's Nest: