A day late on my weekly post, but I have an excuse. My daughter, Kristi, threw me a birthday party at the Flying Saucer yesterday.

That’s right. Another year older. Left the ‘Lemieux Year’ and began the ‘Goligoski/Bissonnette Year.’ How many of you remember Alex and Paul?

Though I thought he was out of town, my editor and bestie showed up to surprise me with a bag of bag of necessities.

Cody Sams presented me with a framed picture of the original hummingbird drawing.

Unfortunately, ‘Shatayir’ has Sunday off; but, the Phily-style Dipster was very good as usual, as was the No Label Ridgeback Ale.

Also, as usual, I forgot to take pictures. One day, I will step into this era of selfies and photo documentation of events.

Thank you all for the wonderful gifts and for making my birthday special.

By the way, Cody was wounded while mediating a disagreement among the canine attendees – Pepper, Abbie, and Maggie. Luckily, the Saucer had a band-aid for his boo-boo.