Well I wasn’t going to blog about it....
August 6 2003
I was trying to be resolute in not blogging about it being my birthday today, but Duffbert threatened to out me anyway, so here we are. Question is, did I wake up in the right place this morning? I had three birthday greeting e-mails in my inbox, all of them having a slight twist, oddity, or weirdness:
- First was from a good friend sending me a virtual birthday cake. I guess my waistline appreciates that more than a real one anyway.
- Second was from The Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India. Now, I stayed in this hotel for one night almost two years ago, and never since. I arrived in Mumbai at 1 AM local time after flying 16 hours from Chicago, to find that there was no car for me at the airport (this is Mumbai I'm talking about). Eventually, an agent from the hotel appeared in the crowd (the street passes as a lobby in this part of the airport) and arranged to take me to the hotel. It turns out that a) it was the wrong hotel (I was booked at the Taj Palace) and b) I was one night early, as far as they were concerned. Not a good start. So, I suppose I might have been dazed and confused enough to fill out the whole form at check-in, or maybe they snagged my birthday from my passport.
- Third was from my mother-in-law, who offered
wishes that a green carpet be rolled at my feet. Strange birthday
wish, until I realized (little slow this morning) that she meant my front
lawn, which right now looks like this:
but by the end of the day, promises to look like a lawn again. I'll post the before and after pictures on my photos website.
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Gayle | 8/6/2003 9:43:49 AM
Happy Birthday Ed! I hope it is filled with your best wishes!!!
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Ben Poole http://www.benpoole.com | 8/6/2003 10:04:11 AM
Wahey! Happy Birthday Ed. Your lawn looks good to me ;-) Ben
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Bruce Elgort http://www.BruceElgort.com | 8/6/2003 10:17:26 AM
Ed,
Have a great 40th birthday! :o)
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Tony C http://www.tonycocks.com | 8/6/2003 11:47:18 AM
...glad you go to 40 before me. Let me know what it's like!
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Chris Toohey http://www.dominoguru.com | 8/6/2003 12:11:31 PM
Happy Birthday Ed!
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John Roling ("Greyhawk68") http://www.roling.com | 8/6/2003 12:12:11 PM
40 huh? You didn't look a day over 39 on the Granite Cruise :-)
Have a good one!!!
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Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/6/2003 1:36:18 PM
The first digit is a three and the second is less than five. Bruce is just giving me shit, and you all fell for it!
- 9 Ben Langhinrichs http://www.GeniiSoft.com | 8/6/2003 2:32:28 PM
- 10 Michael Bourak | 8/6/2003 2:47:08 PM
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Gayle | 8/6/2003 3:25:45 PM
Ed:
Bruce just wants "company"...as the old saying goes, "misery loves company" With him being 40...he wanted someone to share his "misery" ;o)
But then again...life DOES begin at 40!!! :o)
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Henning Heinz http://www.domnotes.de | 8/6/2003 3:26:56 PM
If you are still that young IBM CEO is still possible. Have a great time.
Cheers
Henning
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Bruce Elgort http://www.BruceElgort.com | 8/6/2003 4:10:29 PM
Wow....amazing how you say something and people believe it. Can I get into marketing? :o)
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Gerco Wolfswinkel | 8/6/2003 4:13:05 PM
Happy birthday!
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Mike Golding http://www.notestips.com | 8/6/2003 4:21:45 PM
40th ;-)
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Mike Werner | 8/7/2003 7:29:35 AM
Hi Ed,
Happy birthday... hope you spent it well....
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jonvon | 8/7/2003 10:00:56 AM
happy birthday you thirty something guy you.
i'm a day late though, arent' i? too busy writing code yesterday! in retrospect, probably better i waited!
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Jess Stratton http://www.mattandjess.net | 8/7/2003 10:22:58 AM
Oh well, I guess someone had to say it:
A very happy un-birthday to you!
Seriously, I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday.
Cheers,
Jess :-)
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Robert Basic | 8/8/2003 12:20:25 PM
one day later ... argh... hope you had a good day :-))
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Rob Novak http://www.snapps.com/blog/robblog.nsf | 8/10/2003 7:23:34 PM
Hope it was a great one Ed!
Have a great day, Ed!