Birthday Log

5:50 a.m.: Wake up to the alarm - today I’m 43

5:55 a.m.: Make coffee

5:58 a.m.: Check voice mail. Listen to birthday greeting, complete with “Happy Birthday” song, from my best friend in the world

6 a.m.: Iron shirt for work

6:10 a.m.: Get coffee, shower, shave and all that stuff

6:30 a.m.: Dress for work - it’s a tie day

6:45 a.m.: Take birthday greeting phone call from my son, his final band concert of the school year is tonight

6:50 a.m.: Stop at Dunn Bros Coffee for my free birthday coffee drink. Thank you Dunn Bros!

7:17 a.m.: Arrive at work wondering why I didn’t take the day off

7:20 a.m.: Delete all spam e-mail messages from work e-mail account (there are far too many)

8 - 12:10 p.m.: Regular work-related stuff including an announcement about a “workforce realignment”

12:20 - 1 p.m.: Lunch with co-workers

1:30 - 1:45 p.m.: Departmental birthday celebration including rice krispy bars

1:45 - 5 p.m.: More work-related schtuff.

5:30 p.m.: Pick up kids and change clothes

6 p.m.: Dinner at Don Pablos (quesa dip, mmm mmm mmmm)

7 p.m.: Jr. High Band Concert (son plays trumpet)

8:30 p.m.: DQ Dilly Bars for everyone

9:30 p.m.: Load up YouTube video of band concert tunes (the one above is “Bluesville”)

10:30 p.m.: Birthday comes to a close.

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