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I celebrated my 30th by going with my late mother and grandmother (not late!) to Windows on the World, a nice, if pretentious restaurant about three blocks from my then apartment in Battery Park City. Dinner was fine, dessert was a white chocolate skyscraper filled with some sort of strawberry filling. The views from 1000 feet up were stunning. On returning home we listened to the first reports of a car accident in Paris.

Generally, the day is rather routine for me, but my advice is don't fly today, and don't allow the paparazzi to chase you today.

Am hoping that history of the restaurant for my 30th does not repeat itself for the location of tonight's festivities, Level 41 in Sydney, Australia.

My only wish is for the Cubs to have a stunning collapse early in September so as to avoid the buildup to an inevitable end-of-September collapse.