I passed along all the B'day greetings and Patrick sent this message:
Hey tell everybody, "I Got Socks!", and you know, all that warm & fuzzy gooey stuff and stuff, oh, and I be hopin' to get back soon, tells 'em 'I'm warnin' ya's', that it's next on the list after acquiring a bi-cycle, and possibly a more fashionably attractive, yet fully functional geezer stick, it's all about smoove movin', well that and 'cause I'm so goddamn pretty
*** compression socks.