Birthdays
Birthday Wishes
Now relegated to Blogblivion...Monday, July 03, 2006
Happy Birthday
To my grandnephew Elijah, who is a year old today.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Christina of Feisty Repartee.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Xrlq.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Happy Birthday
To my sister Lynn, who is four years ahead of me, enjoying her 20th. Anniversary of her 29th, that is.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Happy Birthday
To my good friend of more than thirty years, Tom Fish.
Happy Birthday
To my nephew Jonathan, who has to wait almost two weeks for his birthday party.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Happy 90th Birthday!
To my amazing grandmother, Hazel Irving, who come to think of it is almost exactly twice my age now. We’re having the big party tomorrow, apparently at the parish house of the church (which she has belonged to longer than anyone; they celebrated her 75 years last year or the year before).
Here are some assorted pictures, the first few not previously posted, the others linking ones already online from old posts. Pardon the fuzziness of the first one. I thought a recent closeup would be nice and it was the best I had offhand.
Happy Birthday
To blogger and blogchild Paul Burgess, who is exactly 40 years younger than my grandmother. May he have another excellent half-century and beyond.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger John Cole.
Happy Birthday
To my friend and former colleague Maureen Kirby.
The Best Rained-On Plans
My poor mother has the worst luck planning big events.
In the summer of 2004, she planned a “family reunion” that primarily doubled as a “wedding reception” for Deb and I, since we expressly wanted to avoid such things.
That had to be moved to the parish house of the church at the last minute, due to substantial rain and gloom. It also wasn’t something that could be rescheduled, as my cousin’s family was up from Texas.
Then there was Easter.
Last year the big Easter egg hunt never happened, if I recall correctly. Or maybe it took almost until June. Or maybe that was the year before.
This year it was delayed by rain two weeks. Easy to reschedule, for “some people have long range plans for almost every weekend” values of easy, but not possible to move inside.
So now we’re coming up on 90 years since June 24, 1916, so were we going to have a big birthday party for my grandmother on the 18th or the 25th? I was thinking the 18th, because at the time it was close enough to know it’d be perfect, if rather hot, weather, even though the weekend of the birthday might be more logical. My mother decided on the 25th, which was technically more logical and gave more preparation time.
Predictably enough, here’s the weather (emphasis added):
So I have no idea what’s going to happen. My first thought was “aw jeez, it’ll have to be postponed, but the next weekend is the holiday so that probably won’t work.” Then I remembered the parish house, but that depends on it not being used for anything else at the time. Or some other, similar place.
The 2nd would actually work for me, if it’s postponed. Originally I though I would be deploying new servers that weekend. All of it. Four non-stop days and hoping that was enough. Which may be what it takes, not counting advance prep and testing or trial run work. Since I had to wait for us to have a meeting about that and broader computer issues, it’ll have to be done on one of the other 3 or 4 day weekends later in July or August. Oh wait… I just doubt it’ll work for enough people to go with it. So yeah, it makes far more sense to find cover than to defer. I’ll have to call my mother and see what she has in mind or if she’s even noticed the forecast.
What luck.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Jaynee.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Katie the Mango.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Kevin Aylward, from all us little birds.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Birthdays
I finally got around to creating a category specifically for birthdays, which I’d previously placed under announcements. I even went through the tedium of changing the catgory on all previous entries, since I don’t have more useful or remunerative things to do. Nope, none.
Happy Birthday
To blogger One Fine Jay.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Doug Williams.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Jim Treacher.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Kate of KateSpot, who had a busy day but shared with us celebrity birthdays she shares.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Happy Birthday
To my niece, Melissa, who is 17 today. Perhaps someday when she is out of school and away from her crazy mother, I will get to see her again…
Friday, June 09, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Exgaucho Ben.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Venemous Kate, who is having open blogging to celebrate.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Happy Birthday
To my father! He makes seventy-something look young.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Frank J.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Wayne Hurlbert.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Happy Birthday
To blogger Kathy Kinsley.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Pejman Yousefzadeh.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Suman Palit.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Bill Hobbs.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Happy Birthday
To my fast-growing grandniece Emily.