Happy Birthday! (not quite yet...)

Major celebrations in prospect tonight at my favourite little Nanluoguxiang hangout, 12 Square Metres, which is marking its 2nd anniversary by reducing its very fine Cooper's beers from Oz to a dangerously affordable 15 kuai each (the last time they did this, for their "late Australia Day" bash at the start of the year, I got tempted into severe over-indulgence).  It's a bit of a cheat because the real anniversary is not until the end of next week (when we will probably do it all over again!), but today we have the further pretext of a leaving party for the boss, JK, who's flying Down Under tomorrow for an extended break with his family.   And tomorrow is The Choirboy's birthday...   I had been hoping to embark upon another period of abstinence, or at least of relative sobriety, in order to shed some of the weight gained on my recent holiday and try to get in shape for the upcoming Beijing Marathon, but.... well, what can you do?  Fate and the calendar are conspiring against me.  Yet again.