<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hah! Well done, amigo. Here's to beating the odds but being ready to throw a fantastic party either way...<div> ~ Porter.<br><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Sep 22, 2009, at 8:54 PM, <a href="mailto:groop-request@groo.com">groop-request@groo.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094); "><b>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Gary Grossmann <<a href="mailto:garyg5678@live.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">garyg5678@live.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094); "><b>Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">September 22, 2009 2:30:01 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094); "><b>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><<a href="mailto:groop@groo.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">groop@groo.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094); "><b>Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b>[Groop] Oops & Thanks!</b><br></span></div><br><br> <br>Hi Folks!<br> <br>I thought I was sending that last message just to Steve. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_embaressed.gif" width="19"> A year older, but no wiser! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_tongue.gif" width="19"><br> <br>Thank you all very, very much for the birthday wishes. I am (finally!) 55 years old. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_teeth.gif" width="19"> As I think I mentioned once, this is a sort of big deal because both my folks passed away when they were 54 (7 years apart)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_sad.gif" width="19">. So for 30 years or so I have been making jokes about kicking off at 54 or what I needed to do to prevent it or having an "A Live at 55" party<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_party.gif" width="19"> or a "No More Than 54" wake or whatever. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_wink.gif" width="19"><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_wink.gif" width="19"><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_teeth.gif" width="19"> (Black humor has it's place.) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <br>So, again, thank you all for the birthday wishes. They are much appreciated. I received the first one from Dr. Bubble the day before my birthday and thought that she was a day off, until I realized that in the Phillipines it WAS already September 21 when she sent the message but by the time I figured that out it was September 21 here so I was both slow of mind and completely confused all at the same time. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_confused.gif" width="19"><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_confused.gif" width="19"><img height="19" alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_confused.gif" width="19"> How approproprite. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <br>Take care all,<br> <br>Gary G. (Who probably shouldn't be allowed access to Smiley's) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <br> </span></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>