Boy, the pressure! I will try to think of something ... :-)
Seriously though, I know it's a little early, but Happy Birthday!
In this year of never ending political and societal calamities, I hope that for you personally, your new "lived year" or "life year" (we say "Lebensjahr" in German) will bring you many good things, among the inevitable bad things.
It's hard to make sense of what exactly a Fedi connection means, but I know it means something, it reflects something real. I like your account and your posts, and we all need to stand by each other against the oncoming evil, so I say my good wishes to a Fedi Mutual with a degree of earnestness. May this be a good year for you.
HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY. I'm so sorry it's taken me a while to respond - I was performing an exhausting endless whirling dance in celebration, dressed in nothing but leaves and feathers and shrieking all around the local town and they've just let me out of prison.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SETH RUDY