AAAAAAAAAAAARG!!!!!!!!!!

Let the countdown begin!

In one month, this Vulture will be 50. I'm still trying to wrap my wings around that one. It doesn't seem possible! In my head, I'm still young. In my head, I'm still able to do everything I did when I was younger.

When I turned 40, I was a little bit freaked out. I vowed I wouldn't get freaked out at 50. But I'm starting to feel a little freaked out. I'm trying to understand how this thing happened. I'm trying to understand how it is that I -- of all people! -- got old.

Time waits for no one, and it won't wait for me.