Happy Birthday, Mark

Today is Mark Ciccarello's birthday!

He is about 5 years my senior, and our lives used to be similar enough that on his birthday, I'd ask him, "OK, what do the next five years have in store for me?"

However, I think we've diverged enough that this is no longer applicable (unless I suddenly develop a keen interest in oceanography -- you never know!)

(It's sort of like Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels, where the predictions are spot-on at first, then start to unravel -- but then mysteriously start to converge again. Still waiting on that last step in this case.)