Happy Birthday To Me

I should have written this up sooner, but I guess it worked out well because the last of it didn’t happen until just recently.

My friends did a fantastic job of throwing me one hell of a birthday this year. Beals made it up a little bit early to begin the celebrations with food and manly stuff. Then Katie and I had a joint birthday dinner at Boca de Beppos. Tuesday Sharvil and I made it out for a while. Wednesday we had a nice dinner at Shultzy’s, though they’re kindof in the doghouse for the service that night. Thursday Jackie took me out to Sonrisa, which was absolutely delicious. And finally, Friday night Jackie gathered up a bunch of the Brazil crowd into Finn MacCools, and it was absolutely wonderful to see them all.

Grandma also sent a few bucks my way. I’m still trying to decide what to do with that. The new MacBooks are really flashy and great, and pretty tempting… but I’m a long way off from one of those. There’s a chance I could make up the difference by shuffling some stuff around, but my last few attempts to sell stuff on CraigsList have not been all that impressive. NewEgg has a 3.16ghz Core 2 Duo that is very, very tempting… but would require some other upgrades.

But for tonight, and probably tomorrow, it’s back to German and trying to not get too distracted by such possibilities.