Today may be April Fools' Day, but last weekend marked a milestone of sorts in my life.

As I turned the Big 4-0, all that ran through my head was, "Lordy, Lordy, Look Who's 40."Throughout the day, many of my Facebook friends wished me a happy birthday.Thoughtful as that was, it made me question why I should be happy to turn another year older.For my birthday meal, my wife took me to P.J. Whelihan's (Platz's), where I splurged on a bowl of French onion soup, buffalo shrimp, and French fries drizzled in Old Bay Seasoning.Later on our waitress came out with a free desert, which I of course ate only for fear that it might melt and mess up the table.From there, we headed over to our usual hangout, where I shot a few games of pool, winning some, losing some.Turns out I was miserable when I won, but rather jovial when I lost, as I enjoy seeing others revel at my expense.I sang my first few karaoke songs of the night, "All Summer Long," and "Drift Away," to a fairly decent response.Toward the end, the applause was still there, but not quite as evident as the first few songs.Figured everyone must have either been all partied out, or at a total loss for words.A mere two days later, my family threw me a surprise birthday party at Knepper's Inn in New Ringgold.When I saw the looks on all their faces, I wondered what all the fuss was about.Come dinner, I was served with yet another very generous portion of food in the form of broiled haddock, a baked potato, and salad.The more that I ate, I thought maybe I should tell the waitress to take it back because it was way too good.In a span of a few days, more people sang to me than ever before.They probably did so to show they don't need a microphone in their hands to sound good.At the request of my cousins' children, I went outside to play a quick game of tag.In doing so, I took a slight fall while backpedaling, but of course that was all part of the act.When we got home, I rubbed open several scratch-off lottery tickets, but only hit on one of them.Thought to myself, that's OK because that just means there's more tickets out there for others to win big on.Deep in thought, I traveled through a time machine and came back 30 years old.Turns out that was only in my dreams, and 10 years behind real time.