Ka-yummy.
I'm flying tomorrow morning to work tech support at a huge-ass corporate conference in Orlando, Florida. My job is to help keep the on-the-fly design studios running, and to make sure all the conference workers can communicate with their home base: email, VPN, etc.
This is the only client I work for directly. The rest of the time, I'm at my little business in the East Village.
If this conference is anything like last year, I can expect 12 - 18 hour days that consist of:
- 8 hours of intense bordedom, followed by
- 0.5 hours of heartfelt panic, followed by
- 10 minutes of rational solution, followed by
- 5 more hours of intense boredom.
So, I'm going to try and post lots of little things over the next five days. I'll be returning late 2/1... And on 2/2, I'm turning 37 years old.
WAIT. Make that 40. I'm turning 40.
Okay, I'm not. But what I decided is: I need to say that I'm 40 for the next four years, so that when I'm finally 41, I'll be cool with it.
Does that make sense to you?
Love to all. Even you, the tragic bastard with the frightened girlfriend.
6 comments:
I am new to your blog (sorry I've been lurking) and I love it. I just wanted to wish you an early Happy Birthday. My b-day is 2/2 as well. But I am turning 30 : (. I am struggling.
Hope you have a good b-day from a fellow ground hog and aquarius : )
Rich,
Stop being a tragic bastard! You gonna frighten your girlfriend!
Enjoy sunshine state!
GEEZ! Where were you with that idea when I turned 40? I'll be 41 this year, so its already too late for me. I should start planning for 50 now, no?
Hello from another lurker who enjoys your blog quite a bit! My older son was born on February 2nd and is getting old enough now (he'll be seven next week) that I'm going to have to steer him clear of future birthdays or people will disallow all pretense of my being 23. Some doubt was raised last year when my husband and I celebrated our ninth anniversary but since anywhere outside of NYC is considered hick-town, most accepted accept the child-bride idea. Still, I may have to suck it up and turn 24 next year just to keep peace with Father Time.
Do you consider your own shadow as authoritative as Punxsutawney Phil's, where weather prediction is concerned?
Lisa - I can't even process that, man. :-)
Mama_Bean - Hey, happy birthday to you, too! Thirty ROCKS. But hell, I'm 40, so what do I know?
Karen - I am directly responsible to the next 6 weeks of weather, but only within 6 feet of where I'm standing at any particular time.
40?
For a man, that's hitting his peak! Until my bf came along, I used to love dating men around that age group.
I cannot wait until *I* turn 40 myself. Good days ahead!
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