Well, since he won't read this...
Dee -
I'll try to be sensitive and not point out how badly the ravages of time have treated you (and for how long). I don't want to make you feel old because you're NOT old. Trees and rocks are old. You're frickin' ANCIENT.
I was just listening to that song they wrote about you around a hundred years ago (you know - the one Odetta, Pete Seeger, Elvis, and many others sang about being "born about 10,000 years ago") and was thinking "not bad for a guy who can only spell as far as "A."
As the song implies, you're a legend. My brethren in the "class of '48" would certainly agree (if I bothered to ask them, which I did not) that we're proud to have you as our role model and mentor in such diverse areas of expertise as BBQ, information technology, photography, telling Aggie jokes, and too many others to enumerate.
Happy Birthday my friend. See you in a few months.
