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Blue Velvet
Jan 30, 2005, 07:00 AM
The guy with the nicely laid-out blog... Happy Birthday to you!

Hope you have a fab day and all...

Let us know how your day went or is going to go and about any nice presents you may have received, especially if they're Maccy things...

All the best
BV
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virividox
Jan 30, 2005, 07:26 AM
Happy Birthday!!! hope you have a blast :)
stubeeef
Jan 30, 2005, 08:20 AM
Happy Birthday, ice and all!
vollspacken
Jan 30, 2005, 08:38 AM
happy birthday from me too, have a nice one... :)

vSpacken
Chip NoVaMac
Jan 30, 2005, 09:56 AM
word(monger) up! (in age that is :D )

Happy birthday guy!
2A Batterie
Jan 30, 2005, 10:00 AM
so how old are you now, birthday boy?
iLikeMyiMac
Jan 30, 2005, 10:01 AM
http://images.neilayton.com/birthday.jpg
Chip NoVaMac
Jan 30, 2005, 10:22 AM
http://images.neilayton.com/birthday.jpg

That is just awesome! Thanks for a good laugh this morning.
iLikeMyiMac
Jan 30, 2005, 10:28 AM
That is just awesome! Thanks for a good laugh this morning.
I have a folder of about a hundred of them on my computer.
If you want to see more by the same guy you can go to http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html
sjpetry
Jan 30, 2005, 10:59 AM
Happy Birthday! :)
wordmunger
Jan 30, 2005, 11:06 AM
Hey, thanks everyone. I mostly celebrated yesterday. Got a new leather jacket and a check for $100, which I'll be spending towards a new Airport Express base station for my music server. I imagine other presents will trickle in over the next week or so.

I'm now 38, so not a particularly momentous one for me. Ask me how I feel two years from now!

Need to go now, but I'll check in tomorrow and let you know how the rest of the day worked out.
wdlove
Jan 30, 2005, 08:30 PM
Happy 38th B-Day wordmunger! ;) May it meet all your expectations. Hope that you enjoyed family and friends. Will look forward to an update.

http://images.animationfactory.com/animations/holiday_events/birthday/birthday_balloon_cake/birthday_balloon_cake_lg_wm.gif
wordmunger
Jan 31, 2005, 08:15 AM
Well, thanks again, everyone, for all the kind messages. I didn't end up doing much celebrating at all yesterday -- now that I'm such an old coot, it's not like I'm much of a party animal. I did, however, have some excellent food and wine over the course of the weekend.

On Friday, the wife and I had an excellent bottle of Hogue Genesis Merlot, as well as a delicious Rothschild (Lafite) Bordeaux, to accompany an excellent filet mignon, baked potato, and salad.

On Saturday we had one of my favorite dishes, pesto lasagne. This was the "official" birthday dinner, so we had apple pie (homemade by my wife and daughter) and ice cream for dessert. Yum! Drank so much wine, it's all kind of a blur, but I think there was a Bonny Doon Syrah and a Cotes de Rossillon Rouge involved.

On Sunday (the actual birthday) I had one of my favorite breakfasts, risotto pancakes and bacon. If you've never had risotto pancakes, they're a real treat. Just take some leftover risotto and mix with a beaten egg. Shape into small "pancakes" and fry them up in some butter on a griddle over medium heat for 5 minutes a side. Wonderful! Yesterday afternoon we took in the matinee of "Samson and Delilah" performed by Opera Carolina. Then it was home for a light dinner and a glass of Merlot before bed.

Nice, mellow birthday, just the way I like them nowadays. In college for my birthdays we used to do something called the "vodka taste test," ostensibly a refined way to compare fine vodkas like Stoli, Absolut, and Denaka, but really an excuse to get trashed on shots of hard liquor.