Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I visit one of Oklahoma's casinos with associates each year around my birthday. Several of us have birthdays around the same time, so we feel a casino junket is the most responsible way to plan financially for the year ahead.

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I'm not an old man. In fact, I am a millennial. But, in a sequence of events many of us experience, I have been getting older. This week, I turn 40.