Birthday!!!
Ok so it is my birthday now (yay!) although I make it a rule not to celebrate stuff till the morning and it is currently just past midnight on March 24th.
I just had my psuedo-birthday party at home with my family. They really did a great job. The cake was made to look like me (they make fun of my ridiculously long legs and so the cake's legs were similarly proportioned) with little card hands, feet and a head. All drawn with my sister's remarkable free-hand comic style. I also received a massive card which sits atop the shelf over the radiator in my room. It has a big stick out tree with lots of foliage on the front to play on my family nickname "Tree" and inside is written greetings and blessings from all my family ;)
I also received a card from my Aunty Debbie, her hubbie Ron and their squid (kid) Amanda. The card has about 5 jelly babies stuck to the front and 2 jelly adults who say "All these babies and no private parts" hehe.. Classic :)
My aunty Jilly has offered to take me out to lunch on tuesday which I am greatly looking forward to. Jean Phillipe, my mother's cousin will also be there so I'll get to catch up with them both which will be nice.
I've decided to put all the money I receive towards a "MyTV" for my Powermac so I can watch TV in little adjustable screens (using the power of Quartz Extreme to play about 6 million at once) or in one small one for when I'm doing something else like absentmindedly surfing or chatting on AIM/ICQ/MSN/iChat. Equally it does all the cool preset recording and realtime recording/playback with pause and fast forward because of Quartz Extreme. Mmmmmm.. Nice... I'll never miss an episode of Futurama, or anything for that matter, again :)
I might even be able to tape "JAG" for my mother and sister as they are having withdrawal symptoms having spent far too much time without gazing upon "Harb/Harm/Harv" (whatever his name is) the hunky jetpilot-naval officer-lawyer (surely an amalgam of all female fantasy professions) :) its on at about 2am and the VCR here doesn't work (of course it doesn't work its back from a time when it was fighting a war of attrition with Betamax) :)
The Sunday Times reports that there is a majority in favor of the war now :)
I now am going back to my books and reading through Unreasonable Influence once more before my contract tutorial :)
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at March 24, 2003 12:15 AM