birthday's 54th iteration
Sep. 10th, 2009 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomI turned 54 yesterday. The day was marked by well-wishers over at Making Light and elsewhere. Thanks, all of you! I did mostly greasemonkey work at the office, but that's OK because I like being a greasemonkey (as long as I'm appreciated for it). After that, my wife and I wennt to my favorite Mexican restaurant, where I had lots of chips and salsa before my burrito magnifico showed up. Back home, we spent some time looking for my wife's house/car keys. Presents were later presented. Her parents had sent me the DVD set of Burn Notice's first season. Sue gave me the steampunk graphic novel The Five Fists of Science. Then we sat down and watched George Pal's wondeful 1964 movie 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.
"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it. The way the sun goes down when you're tired, comes up when you want to be on the move. That's real magic. The way a leaf grows. The song of the birds. The way the desert looks at night, with the moon embracing it. Oh, my boy, that's... that's circus enough for anyone. Every time you watch a rainbow and feel wonder in your heart. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand. Every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, you're part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2009 04:27 pm (UTC)Happy day-after-your-Birthday!
Julia, w/a 1984 pic of me and my hubby for giggles.
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2009 05:05 pm (UTC)Wrestling with roses? The more I hear about your farm, the more I become convinced that you live in a Realms of Fantasy story.
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2009 05:26 pm (UTC)Julia, rose not pictured: that one is Brenda Colvin, which also requires healthy exersize in the fresh air but at least is not growing on the house.
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2009 04:50 pm (UTC)I may have to watch Dr. Lao again. The first (and last) time I saw it was in the theater release, and I was aggravated that it had failed, IMNSHO to do justice to the book.
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2009 05:13 pm (UTC)It has been decades since I read the book, which I did long before I saw the movie. I see them as two different entities, one being quite dark, and the other so full of of the love of Life.
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2009 05:12 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I should offer some kind of appropriate salutation.
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Let me be the very first to wish you a happy and prosperous 55th birthday.
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Date: Sep. 11th, 2009 07:46 pm (UTC)My birthday is also Nov. 4, and I've always referred to it as "the day before Guy Fawkes day." If there's an even more obscure historical reference point, I'll adopt it eagerly!
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Date: Sep. 12th, 2009 02:03 am (UTC)Which means, I should clarify, that in 2009 Melbourne Cup day is the 3rd of November. When I said my birthday was Melbourne Cup day, I meant that it was Melbourne Cup day on the actual day I was born.
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Date: Sep. 11th, 2009 05:40 am (UTC)That's pretty dang awesome.
And Happy (belated) Birthday. I'm glad you had a good one. ;-)
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Date: Sep. 11th, 2009 10:11 am (UTC)Thanks!
The celebrations were held on Cloud Nine of course.
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Date: Sep. 12th, 2009 01:58 pm (UTC)Carol Witt
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Date: Sep. 12th, 2009 03:43 pm (UTC)It's wonderful having you for a friend.
Susan
http://www.rixosous.com
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