@Discombobulated - I hope you are able to celebrate your birthday in style this year. My 50th was last year. I had saved money to to go Europe. Obviously that did not happen. I still have the money sitting in a mutual fund, at least.

I was lucky that my birthday in 2020 was during a lull between the protests and riots here and the arrival of Covid. My husband and I went to a place in town for drinks and sushi.