I have been luke warm lately about facebook until this morning. For years and years and years I have sought to maintain a very low profile on my birthday. It's not like I'm embarrassed about my age or any other type of hangup, I just have never understood making a big deal of another day passing us by. This morning I got up at 5:00 as usual to head to the gym. When I pulled my phone off of the charger it began buzzing like crazy and the bulk of the messages were facebook notifications of folks around the country wishing me a happy birthday. Well, I must admit, that put a smile on the birthday scrooge's face. So I went and did my standard m-f workout at Gold's (which is literally right across the street from my office building) and had a better than average workout. Then later on I thought I'd finally do something to celebrate after all and decided to ride my age in mileage every year on the big day. So after work I went home and peddaled 47 miles. Fortunately we have had a cool spell in Phoenix lately and it was only 105 degrees for the 2.5 hour party. When I got back home Christine had a nicely wrapped gift for me on the table. She had gone across town and picked up the exact pair of new running shoes I had been wanting. The Vibram Five Finger KSO Trek is a fairly new piece of footware that allows you to mimic running barefoot but with a Vibram sole protecting your soles from punctures.
I also had a package from Germana and John with a hilarious book titled Sh*t My Dad Says and a couple nice shirts. Thanks Christine, Germana and John. After being disenchanted with facebook lately it was actually the vehicle that started turning a ho hum day into a great birthday. Thanks to everyone for taking time out of your busy schedules to think about me!
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