My Birthday Video

Sunday, February 26, 2023

I uploaded another homemade video onto my YouTube channel.

My 62nd Birthday (Feb. 26, 2023)

My 62nd Birthday, February 26, 2023

I am celebrating my 62nd birthday today. My mother created an Italian feast for me: her famous Caprese antipasto, and also pasta shells stuffed with ricotta cheese with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese, and then baked. Yesterday, my wife created chicken and pasta with vegetables in a cream sauce.

This afternoon, from the local bakery, my wife and I retrieved an Austrian Sachertorte (chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and apricot jam). I have eaten many pieces of the original Sachertorte at the Sacher Hotel in Vienna, Austria. This version was made differently.

During this video, I speak of my personal background, today's birthday celebration, and also of the celebrations from yesterday and for tomorrow. I include several photos of today's celebration.

Here is my Facebook post from earlier today that explains in more detail:

February 26, 2023

YEAH !!! I am officially 62 years old !!! I was born at 9:08 a.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, Long Island, New York, on February 26, 1961 (also a Sunday). When I was a kid at school in the 1960s and 1970s, I would say, "YEAH !!!" at 9:08 a.m. on my birthday in whatever classroom I was in, invariably interrupting the teachers.

I share my birthday with my cousin Jackie, Victor Hugo, Tony Randall, William Frawley, Jackie Gleason, and Antoine "Fats" Domino.

I am quite happy that my birthday is sandwiched between the birthdays of my dear friend Bryan, whom I have known for 62 years, and George Harrison, both on February 25, and my favorite pop singer Rainhard Fendrich (from Austria) on February 27. I will call Bryan on the phone this evening; I always call him on February 25 or 26. (Bryan has always been a year and a day older than me.)

... and to my mother: Thanks !!! As per tradition, as usual, she called me on the phone at 9:08 a.m. this morning to sing her funny version of "Happy Birthday" that she has sung to me for many decades:

"Happy Birthday to you
You belong in the zoo
With the lions and tigers
And the monkeys like you"

On a serious note, my father passed away at age 62. I know that there really isn't any correlation, but still, the notion resides in the back of my mind.

https://youtu.be/BPAIEgkArOQ