Tag: birthday
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42
I am 42 today. Don’t feel a day over 72. I’ve been going to Denny’s every year for my birthday, since I don’t know when. I think it must have started when they used to give you free lunch for your birthday, but when I started hanging out with Bill and Scott, who both share…
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41
I turn 41 today. Five years ago, I ate dinner at Per Se in New York. I had a twelve-course meal that cost something like $750. Then I went home and watched the movie Idiocracy. Then my iTunes library crashed, and I spent the next day restoring it, so a huge chunk of my songs…
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The City of Lights and Massages
I got in the cab after no line at all in front of McCarran airport, a first, even when I came out to Vegas a few weeks after 9/11, when people in rural Arkansas thought the Taliban would probably fly an Airbus into their grain silo Any Day Now. The roller bag and new camera…
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40
I am 40 today. Actually, at the very minute this blog post is made (10:53 CST), 40 years ago, I was born at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. 40 years. 40 god damned years. I don’t believe that. I mean, my body feels like I’m 80 most mornings, but I feel like I…
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Vegas, Again
Okay, I have been back a week, but it has been a crazy week. First off, here are the pictures from Vegas: These are the first pictures with my new DSLR. I took roughly 500 shots over the trip, but I still have no idea what I’m doing, so this is the best 20% of…
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39
I am a year older today. I had a rainy day off of work today, hanging out here in Oakland and listening to the sound of gravel-like downpours smashing against the skylight. I will be getting on a plane tomorrow morning and heading to Vegas, for a long weekend with Bill Perry, Marc, and Tom.…
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36
I’m 36 today. It’s another nice round number, and I guess I think about that every year. 30 was big, 35 was halfway between 30 and 40, and 36 means I’m approaching 40. I like 36 better than I will probably like 37; I didn’t like 27 either, for some reason. But it always has…
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34
So I turned 34 recently. I didn’t write an official story about the whole trip, but it seems like every January when I go to Las Vegas, something weird gets thrown in the mix, and the trip mutates just a little bit from the original plan. There, of course, is no real plan to start…
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birthday, AC/DC day
Today is unoffically AC/DC day in office 375. I got the Bonfire boxed set last night, and I’ve got two of the five CDs with me today. I think I now own about six different recordings of “Whole Lotta Rosie.” Time to go out and buy one of those leather caps and a Jack Daniels…
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28
Today is my 28th birthday. It feels like any other day in some ways – I’m here at work, I don’t have any plans tonight, and I’m eating my usual sack lunch. It’s a weird year; Bill Perry has the same birthday as me, and we usually do something together. This year, he’s in Bloomington…