I'm 42 today. I share a birthday with Douglas Adams. This will undoubtedly be a year of much silliness.

Indicators that the party was a success:

1. Turns out nothing got broken.
2. There is more leftover booze than can fit back into the liquor cabinet.

About 40 people came, 11 made the trip from a different city (of those, 4 from a different state). Sunday, our house guests left, and Nicole had to work a shift, so I spent the afternoon cleaning up, in a ( Read more... )

Damn. Wednesday was one of the best days of my life, and what an incredible way to ring in my fifth decade ( Read more... )

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Last night:

Met Steve, Betsy, and Nic at R Palate for after-work drinks and nosh. Three bacon-wrapped offerings on the happy hour menu. My review is here.
Started First Thursday visiting Sequential Art Gallery for Shell's show, wandered the Pearl for a while, got ice cream, went home.
Tonight:

Picking up The Brothers, in from LA, from PDX ( Read more... )

39 is ...

the atomic number of Yttrium.

the number of activities prohibited on Shabbat, according to Halakha.

the number of defining statements of Anglican Church doctrine, and the number of books in the Old Testament (in the Protestant canon).

a semiprime (the product of two primes, 3 and 13), the sum of five consecutive primes (3 + 5 + 7 + 11 ( Read more... )