Today is my birthday. I am 32 today, the perfect age to be. Anything over that and you become a decrepit relic of your former self, any younger and you’re a naive and unworldly whelp barely out of short trousers (in fact in Avitable’s case you’re not even out of short trousers). Bizarrely enough until very recently the perfect age to be was actually 31. In fact in a strange coincidence it was only changed at midnight last night, the very moment I turned 32.
I’m just lucky I guess.
Not only have I turned the perfect age, but I received the perfect gift. Behold the iPod touch:
(press play for added dramatics. I can assure you that is a choir of angels heralding the iPods arrival on this earth. It is not, however much it may sound like it, me messing around on Garageband.)
I did think twice about announcing getting such an expensive gift directly after receiving a large amount of charity donations, but I promise there was no skullduggery afoot. My wonderful wife bought it with the money she received for doing around seven thousand hours overtime this month. Thank you so much Kerry, I love you very much.
I love her nearly as much as my new ipod in fact. In case you haven’t seen one before it is basically a iPhone but without the phone, which I admit sounds a little pointless but I can assure you isn’t. It is a beautiful piece of engineering and design, and I have now started referring to it as my third child. I have so far resisted actually giving it a name, but only because the only one I could think of was Madonna in reference to the song I Touch Myself (iTouch, get it! Oh my comedy genius knows no bounds). However Maddona reminds me far too much of Mumm-Ra to make her a suitable namesake for such a glorious device.
In other news my new camera lens arrived from America yesterday. I can now take photos with extra blurry backgrounds and get away with not using the flash as much (flash is the devil). It has occurred to me that with my new iPod and my new ability to take extra blurry photos my life has suddenly started to emulate Miss Britt’s. So if you could win the lottery at some point Britt I’d be most grateful.
Along with the lens Greg had included T-shirts to clothe nearly everyone I know. Each one bear’s the legend “mmm… Chives…” (to be honest it’s probably best you don’t ask). Thank you Greg, you’re a king among men. Watch this space for another chive related extravaganza.
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Just because I’m back to talking about me again doesn’t mean you can’t donate any more. Take a look here and give what you can. Cough up or I’ll start singing again.
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 12:10 am
I don’t plan on walking farther than out to my car any time soon though, just so you know. :-)
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 2:05 am
Tis a good thing you found your back to the interwebs today. You’d hate to be late for your own birthday!
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 4:02 am
And short pants are trendy and en vogue.
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 4:34 am
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 4:50 am
My Nigerian friends are making arrangements for delivery of your birthday cash.
Have a good one!
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 10:14 am
Happy birthday squire. I’m glad your new lens has arrived. All those “in focus” pictures were getting tiresome. Bluriness is where it’s at. It’s even got a name, “Bokeh”. When I discovered the etymology of the word ‘bokeh’, I was rather disappointed. I thought it might be some magical, mystical land which only came into focus once every 101 years, or perhaps it was the name of the person who invented the technique. No. It’s japanese for “blurry”.
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Happy birthday mate. Don’t these birthday things come round fast now a days?
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Enjoy your great day.
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Have a lovely day, well what’s left of it.
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Nice gift. Lucky bastard.
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on Feb 1st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Whit – Snarf, Snarf.
Imperceptible – Haven’t you heard? 32 is the new 29.
Jeff – After two weeks without the net I have decided that I’d rather loose my left arm than have it happen again.
Avitable – You just keep telling yourself that.
Zoe’s Dad – My metabolism has lapped me several times already.
Phil – I shall look forward to it.
Oli – A fount of information as always.
Craig – They do indeed. I am thinking on having my own shifted to Feb 29th
Morticia – I’ve worked out that if I don’t sleep I get 8 more iPod hours in.
Hygiene Dad – Wow, you’re old. I’m surprised that you can even use a computer with you’re withered ancient hands.
Jane – I was working for most of it unfortunately, but I’m having a second unofficial birthday tomorrow.
Jason – You’re welcome.
Helen – It certainly is.
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Weekend Blog Hopper,
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on Feb 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
And no, I haven’t donated yet, yes I will be, when the accountant isn’t looking.
32, good grief.
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on Feb 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Don’t worry about not donating yet, there’s a fair bit of time between now and july and i have a few more begging posts in me yet.
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