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30 June 2008 - Still Alive @ 45! (T-215d)

Ok, ok, so I didn't "die" while I was 44. The squirrel has his own theories on that. I'm just glad that year is over with. Now that I'm invincible again, I'm doing sky diving, autocross racing, pilot license and any other high risk borderline suicidal behavior I can conjure.

My birthday was uneventful. I woke up at 4:44 am. That number just had to get one last dig in on me. Then I got up a little before 6:00 am. No cards, no breakfast in bed, just a normal day. I had talked about going to Canyon Lake so around 8:30 am we start to get ready when Aidan reports he feels a little sick to his stomach. I felt his head, it was warm. I took his temp, yep, a fever. So I called Robbie to cancel and he says he's going anyway. We give Aidan some tylenol and he's upset he can't go. After a while he starts to feel better so we go anyway. We call Robbie when we get there to see where he was and it turns out he's by our house at Sea World instead. GRRRR.

So we stayed at the lake, we went over to the Blevins for a bit, nothing else happened. That's good I guess. All worked up over that damn 44 nonsense.

Still haven't fixed my cell phone, if you were trying to call me that is. I suspect y'all weren't anyway. I'm getting more and more like my dad every day. He hates talking on the phone.

I saw a bunch of movies going to/from Europe/Japan. I highly recommend Penelope. I finally saw Cloverfield and it was great, but a once only viewing. The rest of what I watched wasn't worth mentioning. Not when FantasticFest is just a few months away.

There's a lot of drama going on at work these days. I'm a bit nervous about retiring but with all this going on I'll be happy to leave the USAF. Never thought I'd say that. The times are changing and fast.