Huh.

On the list of 'interesting news relating to my power', in the vain attempts to distract myself from the impending cicadas-make-me-crazy times...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html

Linguists have discovered 'ultraconserved' words that could be as much as 15,000 years old. Previous view was that words couldn't survive more than about half of that. Science is neat.

Also, thanks for the birthday gifts! I'll probably be down at Finnegan's having a birthday pint or two should anyone want to join me.