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Today and until next wednesday here's the special thing that's happened - youngster Agatha will be 14 and I'll be 41.  I was curious about any special notes or developments from the year 1441 and of course it's just one of those archetypal early-modern years where some unremembered war had some unremembered breakthrough in the Low Countries.

I decided not to have my march party.  The one I threw/throw for people in celebration of my and my daughter & my mother & my aunt & my cousin & my sister-in-law & my other cousin & two other cousins & one great-aunt's birthdays.

This is a thing I've done for years now - since I was 35 - so... Yeah a long time now.  I'm not doing it this year.  There's republicans in my family & I'm not gonna throw any of them a party.  That's all there is I got to say about it now.

I'm really thinking of taking young A to a beach on a plane for a long weekend - do that instead of the family party.  She's never gone on a plane and I feel badly about that.  Never seen the ocean - and I feel badly about that.

So I'll see if I can solve something thataways anyhow.

So that's what's up.

Oh - and next week I turn 42.  Send presents.