Thank you one and all. It's been four straight days of celebration. Some close friends had my wife and me over for dinner Saturday night, my actual birthday...as it turns out, because they were unable to come to the surprise party Monday that I never saw coming.
I thought it was strange that my wife was buying me beer...lots of beer...and urging me to finish some projects I've had going around the house. Duh. A friend insisted I come over to see his new dvd projector...then I had to go with him to Lowe's to look at closet materials ...finally we headed back to my house to meet our wives for dinner. Or so I thought. Nineteen of my closest friends were waiting for me in the living room. Was I ever stunned.
And Les, every guest saw and saluted "our" custom figure of the missus. I got to say over and over again, "My wife is an action figure."