On my birthday, on January 16, I started by saying, “It’s my birthday and my wife is making a nice dinner with friends, and it’s a good thing. It’s hitting me a bit hard, but I’m still vertical and clear of head, so it can’t be that bad. I have not been this freaked out before, there’s something about 68 that’s just over the top for me.”My dear friend, Professor Joel Cohen, mathematician, and probably the only real mathematician I know (if you’re an accountant it doesn’t even count!) wrote and said, “I also found 68 a very hard birthday, perhaps because 68 is not a prime number. For what it's worth, 67 is a prime number and so is 71. I hope this birthday finds you happy and healthy and that you have many, many more birthdays.”
OK, a mathematical answer for sure, but it didn’t make me feel better; it did make me laugh although that may not have been the intention.
My youngest daughter received a new Nikon D-60 DSLR for Christmas, so I asked her to take pictures at my party so I would have something to remember it by and my family would always have the images in case they needed them in some memorial in the future. (God, I sound just like my mother!)
We had a great time and we plan to do it again next year, with a 69 theme! I leave that to the imagination.
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