Fellow Flyertalker - thank you so much for all these tremendous birthday wishes ...and so this cycle ends, and another begins. Another year over and many lessons learned, and most probably many lessons missed.

And as the final hours of my birthday dwindle, so too must this thank-you-note. I hope you can continue to connect with me through flyertalk and or in real life, and hopefully, just hopefully, I will get to meet all your inspirational people in the very near future.