Happy Birthday to ME-again

Things that I am thankful for now that I have reached my birthday today...

I am thankful that I have my health for the most part.

I am thankful that I have gotten to meet such great people in the past year including Whitney, Carl, Julie, Adam, Ethan, Stephanie, Gwen, Cynthia, Paula, and Corey.

I am thankful to know some of the other people I have come across so far-even Colleen and Furio. ;)

I am thankful to be employed since I am hearing stories about people that are not so employed right now.

I am thankful for the lessons that I have learned so far.

I am thankful to know that I am in control of my own destiny.

I am thankful that I can make a difference in small ways.

I am thankful that I still love bubble tea.

I am thankful that I still love good animation.

I am thankful that I know that I can still be surprised and pleased.

I am thankful that I can still learn.

I am thankful that I can still make paper valentines.

I am grateful that I still possess a little from the cyncial column and a little from the 'sense of wonder' column.

I am thankful I still love to dance and sing.

I am thankful that I am learning to like people again.

I am thankful to have been connected to with someone who enjoys enjoying tasty food.

I am thankful that I lived to see the Red Sox and the Patriots win and that I vaguely remember when the Celtics last won (1986). I was not alive for the Bruins' triumphs.

I am thankful that I get to see a 'new' Robotech movie.

I am thankful that I can enjoy the small things as well as the big.

I am thankful to know that it is possible to get a job where you can drink, act as a chauffeur and beat up women for money (inside joke with Carl about a Barbara Stanwyck-Clark Gable called 'Night Nurse')

I am thankful because I think that the sea is a wonderful thing.

I am thankful that I still have so far to go on this strange and wonderful journey that is life.

Happy Birthday to ME

I know that I will spend part of the day working and the rest of the evening returning to better times by watching Robotech at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge.
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The usual maudlin thoughts that are usually reserved for this day were already spent while I was sick, so I don't have anything left for my birthday, which would actually be seen as a positive.

I don't feel older or wiser and I haven't since I was 13. The years rolled on and I just would get bigger and more liable for things like bills...

It's funny. I am grateful to be alive and I feel as if I should do something more to mark the occasion but anything else would be hypocrisy or plain weird.

I am bummed that the 65 degree weather of last year will not be this year. One seeming constant is that I delay any real celebration of anything until warmer weather. Details about that to come...

I did come up with a motto for this year: Know where you want to go and plan how to get there.

Last year's was probably: "You gotta be kiddin' me!!!"

2004 was: "I need a spear and magic helmet-STAT!"


Well, here's to another year full of possibilities and bumps and aches and possible growth.

And better blog entries...

Gerald Ford's Funeral- live blogging

I am currently listening to the funeral for the 38th president of the United States-Gerald Ford. I tuned into CBS ready to hear the new carryings on taking place in Springfield (Guiding Light) and got the broadcast instead. Katie Couric is officiating the CBS broadcast. To give Anchor Barbie some credit, she is trying but tried my patience as usual with her limp attempts to be witty and knowledgeable. I went over to NBC, where Brian Williams resides. I thought that Tom Brokaw would have been pulled in as he had for the Queen Mother's funeral. Brian acquitted himself as competently as he often does; demonstrating why he was tapped to secede Brokaw when he retired. I realized that Charles Gibson would likely be hosting the ABC broadcast and so here I am, listening to Charles and now Barbara Walters providing commentary about President and Mrs. Ford. This is the kind of moment that both anchors are made for.

I now know why Tom Brokaw is not covering the funeral-he will be providing one of the eulogies. Tom acquitted himself well.

They retired his number, which was "48" at the Univ of Michigan.

It is a windy day.

The service is High Espicopal, and the hymns are being sung by the Armed Forces choir.

As the only President to serve that was not elected in a general election, it was pointed out that Justice John Paul Stevens was his only appointee to the Supreme Court.