45

Well, another birthday month has come and gone. (The 13th, for those of you that missed it). It’s nice that it often happens close to the Columbus day weekend. All went well, even though it started off with a little excessive imbibing after Friday’s dinner – but a tasty drink and cute boys, well… I ended up going out every night of the weekend, so I think I birthday’ed enough to justify the actual day (Tuesday) to be relatively regular and boring.

I must say the Internet age makes things interesting. The Birthday celebrations began on October 1, when I got a flurry of birthday emails from restaurants and stores that had my day on file. Some had some nice coupons, so saving a buck or two was nice. Cards are pretty much dead except for my immediate family. Being a computer guy myself it doesn’t faze me. I’m just happy to still be remembered. So over the weekend I got plenty of email well-wishes, and a flurry of Facebook Happy’s from all my FB buddies near and far. The strangest ones being some more robo-emails at midnight Monday as Tuesday EST officially kicked in – I’m not sure why the Eudora help forum or Apple Insider really wanted to wish me a happy – but I guess “the only thing worse than being talked about” and all…

So this was 45 for me – half way through the decade. Studies say this is the “unhappiest” decade in most people’s lives. The exuberance if youth is gone, and the “don’t care, you’re still alive” of the later years hasn’t kicked in yet. Not sure where I fall in that yet. I certainly don’t feel old, except for the knees (paying for all those skinned knees as a kid maybe). By now I do realize the whole ‘work’ thing is overrated, but aside from the occasional lottery ticket there’s not much you can do there. :)

I'll end it with a great column by Charlie Brooker, a columnist from The Guardian, a newspaper in the UK. (That's Charlie's byline pic at the top of the post - I love that cheeky look :-)