compleanno di Gibbs

Gibbs turned 39 (for the first time) today. We celebrated with chocolate chip cookies and a few gifts from the Ducati outlet. Yes! He did get a motorcycle. The good news is the shipping costs to get it home are negligible, the bad new is it's a little small for freeway riding (or really any riding...)
We have taken to using La Repubblica (the newspaper) for wrapping paper, and today's paper did not disappoint- there was a feature on how 4-8 years in the white house ages a person. So far, I'd say Gibbs' term has been much kinder to him than Carter's.