Tone Parsons

My wife and I were talking last night about days. Specifically, how many days we’ve been together as compared to how many days we’ve been alive (it’s nearly 50%). So, I decided to put it all together via a rather clever java script to give it some perspective.

• I’ve been alive for days
• My wife and I have been together for days
• I’ve been a father for days
• I got out of college days ago
• I’ve been with my current employer for days
• My back has been toast for approximately days
• My youngest son will graduate from college in around days
• My house will be paid off in days
• I will be elegible to retire in days

That’s a lot of damn days!

With the exception of my being stupidly ill, I had a fantastic birthday!!

The take so far:

Dremel 400-3/70H 400 Series XPR Rotary Tool Kit

This was the gift from my wife and I totally love it!!

I’ve already used this to fix a door that sticks and have plans to do about a bazillion other things with it. Oh…. how sexy is this!?!

It came with 70 different attachments (I need to pick up a few more for it) and a very cool case designed to hold them all and more. Very damn cool indeed!!

Bioshock (for windows)

This was a gift from my kids. I’ve been needing a new game for a while now, and this one is pretty cool. While I haven’t gotten very far into it so far, it looks pretty good (well, it would look fantastic if I upgraded my PC).

I installed it, played it for a bit, and then took more NyQuil and went to bed. I plan on giving it another run tonight 🙂

We had cake and ice cream and I got a few phone calls with people singing happy birthday to me (which is always funny!). My sister has a gift for me which I’ve yet to see and my friend Tom in Alaska is shipping me a bunch of halibut and salmon which he caught (mmmmmmmm…. nummy!!).

Of course, when my kids broke out the saws-all and went after me (they wanted to cut me open and count the rings), things went a little bad, but I guess I can still run faster than they can, so it was all good!

If you’re looking for a last minute gift for your favorite blogger, may I suggest the following 3 items:

• Kleenex
• DayQuil
• NyQuil

I’m sick as a damn dog today. My head is all stuffed up, my sinuses are pounding…. hell, even my back teeth hurt. I woke up at 4:00 am because of it.

🙁

But on a much brighter note, my wife surprised me with a balloon bouquet this morning (she had them hidden in the guest room). She wanted to get them out before I woke up, but since I beat her out of bed by 2 hours, that didn’t happen. She also said I have to wait until tonight to open my presents.

Oh….. pleeeeese let it be a pony!!!

Well… maybe not a pony, but the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Roadster I posted earlier would work!

I’m a little cranky today.

My head is all stuffed up, I’m coughing up crap, and I’m having a hard time concentrating (like that’s a new issue).

meh….

On the flip side of things, I did come up with a viable solution for one of the applications I wrote to deal with certain users who think that you can leave a web based form open for 2 days and then submit it (hello, Mr. Timeout! How are you today?).

Oh… and don’t forget… tomorrow is Airplane Dance around the World Day!!  Get those props spinnin’ (unless, of course, you’re a jet).