Forty-four places in forty-five days, ten thousand miles to go...

So, I'm now 45 years old.  Forty.  Five.  Years.  Old.  Bah Humbug. So, I'm only 5 short years away from 50, from being eligible to join AARP.  Fiddlesticks. So in order to NOT be drowned in a pool of depression, let's see what else 45 is.

Forty-Five is....

1) the atomic number of Rhodium.
2) a Colt firearm.
3) the sum of 0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9.
4) the Sapphire Wedding Anniversary.
5) the shortest "Primary" interstate, between Dallas and Houston.
6) number of joining the union for the state of Utah.

Also, 
7) Mozart died ten years younger than me.
8) Elvis died three years younger than me.
9) when he was my age, President Obama was a US Senator from Illinois.
10) when he was my age, Mitt Romney was CEO of Bain & Company.
11) Shelley Duvall was the 45th host of Saturday Night Live.
12) the 45th President of the United States will be the next one.
13) the Godfather was the Best Picture Winner in the 45th Annual Academy Awards.
14) "Sentimental Journey" by Les Brown was the #1 song of 1945.
15) This is the ring given to the Green Bay Packers...

Winners of the 45th Super Bowl.

16) This is the cover of the Justice League Of America #45...

Published in June 1966.

17) The 45th Parallel north runs through the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
18) The 45th Congress of The United States met from March, 1877 - March, 1879.
19) Jason Statham is 45 years old.
20) Will Farrell is 45 years old.
21) Vin Diesel is 45 years old.
22) Julia Roberts is 45 years old.
23) Nicole Kidman is 45 years old.
24) Jamie Foxx is 45 years old.
25) Matt LeBlanc is 45 years old.
26) John Barrowman is 45 years old.
27) Lisa Boney is 45 years old.
28) Pamela Anderson is 45 years old.
29) Anderson Cooper is 45 years old.
30) Jimmy Kimmel is 45 years old.
31) Macy Gray is 45 years old.
32) Deion Sanders (football player/sports announcer) is 45 years old.
33) Vanilla Ice is 45 years old.
34) Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker is 45 years old.
35) Kurt Cobain would have been 45 years old.
36) Anna Nicole Smith would have been 45 years old.
37) George V was the 45th Monarch of England since 1066. (he's also Queen Elizabeth's grandfather)
38) Valentine's Day next year will be the 45th day of 2013.
39) Comet Queen was the 45th member of the Legion Of Super-Heroes.

40) According to Forbes, Eric Schmidt at Google is the 45th richest person in America (worth 7.5 billions)
41) Henry Thomas Rainey, Democrat from Illinois, was the 45th Speaker of The US House Of Representatives, from March 1933 to August 1934.
42) The Cleveland Indians won the 45th World Series in 1948.
43) "One More Night" was the #1 song during the 45th week of 2012.
44) The 45th episode of "I Love Lucy" was "Lucy Is Enceinte", wherein she discovers she's pregnant.
45) The 45th year of the existence of the United States of America was 1821.

Well, there....now I don't feel so bad about being 45 years old.

POLT