New Year

Ah, nothing like waking up at 14:00 on the first day of a new year. Some say a new decade. How does that work again?

Although any period of ten years is a decade,[1][2] a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of the calendar year, as in using 1960s to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969.[3][4] Often, for brevity, only the tens part is mentioned (60s or sixties), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate pop culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in The Great Depression of the 1930s. For example, the decade commonly referred to as the "two thousands" ended on December 31st, 2009. Some writers[5] like to point out that since the common calendar starts from the year 1, its first full decade contained the years from 1 to 10, the second decade from 11 to 20, and so on. The interval from the year 2001 to 2010 could thus be called the 201st decade, using ordinal numbers. However, contrary to practices in referencing centuries, ordinal references to decades are quite uncommon. Wikipedia

I for one look forward to my forties. When we mottles get to about this age, we start to hope that things don't change. Typically it is all down hill with health and sences. I plan on taking it all in stride and rolling with the punches. Some stuff will work out and some stuff will not. Life is too short to be pissy all the time.