Today, on July 8, in the year of our Lord 2009, I will celebrate my 39th birthday — for the 44th time. I wrote about this last year when I turned 82, and earlier when I reached 81, and what I recounted then is still relevant and worth updating. Not much is new since then. In October I was involved in a head-on collision with a teenage girl who crossed the median strip and hit me head on, leaving me with a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder and a spat with the notoriously penny- pinching Allstate, her insurance...