birthdays

Don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time to get something in time for my 35^th birthday next week. If you’re wondering what to get a guy who has everything, you should take a look at my 13-page Amazon wishlist …

I just noticed that a few days ago was the eighth anniversary of this blog. It seems like only yesterday …

How the hell did that happen? I could have sworn like two or three weeks ago I was just turning 30 and it was only a year or two before that I turned 21. If it wasn’t for the fact that I am happier now than I ever have been before — and I have felt that way pretty much every day since I turned 9 or so — this whole 6/26 thing would really bother me.

Tomorrow I will be 34 years old. This amazes me.

PS: It’s not too late to get me something nice.

According to bonkworld’s Amazing Days Calculator, “This is day number 12,386 for people born on June 26, 1973.” I’m mildly irritated that I didn’t do something special for my 10,000^th day on November 10, 2000. Must make a mental note to celebrate my 15,000^th on July 20, 2014. Hopefully by then I’ll be able to zip over to Maui with my jetpack.

<Southern Baptist Revival Preacher Voice>
I have got to get y’all to give out a louuuuud Gator-chompin’, foot-stompin’, party-rompin’, company-credit-card-compin’ Happy 30th - I say THIRTY-ETH - Birth-a-day to my son Ryan Tober in Hotlanta, Jaw-ja!
</Southern Baptist Revival Preacher Voice>

(Gift en route.)

Y’know what I want? I want to be able to click anything, anywhere, and add it to my amazon.com wishlist. (Note that that is a link to a Google Search on the term “amazon wishlist” and not another shameless plug for my own wishlist.) Like this pendrive, f’rinstance. What a great little toy! I want one. I really, really want one. But I don’t have the cash right now to buy one. And I don’t want to forget about. Is someone at amazon working on this? Dan? I’d think they’d be all over that. Click here, click there, click anywhere. I’m not even restricting this to the web, either. I want to be able to click on a CD at my friend’s house and add it to my wishlist, too. I want to be able to click without, say, having to be sitting at my computer. Dig? Is someone working on that?

Here there be a twenty-nine year old.

eGads!™

Good Grief! I’ll be 29 in a week. Who’d a thunk it? I swear I feel like I’m only 19. Or 9. Something.
I know I’ve been a wee slacker blogger lately. I’m busy, ok? I promise to write oodles more. Providing you with time-wasting internet tidbits and melodious ramblings is my bag, baby. Have you considered how much joy and virility you’ll experience if you buy me a present?

If you’ve ever wondered where your birthday places you in the scheme of world events, these little scripts will tell you. Check out world events, music, and movies in relation to your age. Pages like this were around when I first got on line, but I doubt that these are the same links I remember from five or six years ago!

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Happy 50^th Birthday, Dad!

In the last week I’ve seen K-PAX, One Night at McCool’s, Home for the Holidays, and Almost Famous.

• Almost Famous is just an excellent movie. I loved it when I saw it in the theater and when I saw it again just now I was amazed at how good it really is. It’s one of those movies that doesn’t have any “throw-away” lines. If you haven’t seen it yet you should.
• K-PAX was a bit of a disappointment. I mean, I really enjoyed the film and all, but it just didn’t do anything for me. I don’t understand the tag line, “Change the way you look at the world.” I don’t see how this movie was supposed to help me do that … (That’s a better tag-line for Almost Famous!) The writing was good and the plot was fun, but I just don’t see why anyone would think it was mind-blowing. It was a decent flick and that’s all.
• Home for the Holidays was great and fun. Jodie Foster should stick to acting though; as a director I think she’s got a lot to learn. (To be fair, many of the plot’s inconsistencies were probably the editor’s fault.)
• One Night at McCool’s was a laugher. Michael Douglas, John Goodman, and Paul Reiser are hysterical. It was pretty ridiculous, but that was the point: Very funny.

PS: A belated Happy Birthday to TheBrad!

Late August seems to be birthday central here at dg.net! Today marks the 26th of my good friend Tara! Send her some birthday cheer!

Do I smell a redesign at packetmonkeys.net? It doesn’t look quite finished, but it certainly has potential. I wonder if Ryan is getting ready to celebrate his birthday. It’s today, dontcha know? Tell him I said, “Hey.”
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