[rollei_list] Re: On Your Feet, Ye Slackards!

  • From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:17:26 -0800

Yikes... you and I were born 1 day apart (+12 years on my part).

Happy Birthday Marc...

:-)

Jim Brick
Sunnyvale, CA
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On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Marc James Small wrote:

> Make Namasti.  Today is my birthday.  Can someone say something nice to a 
> fellow cursed by being born on Friday the Thirteenth?
> 
> The real question is whether my wife or my best friend or my son will 
> remember the date.  My wife generally forgets, though I give her broad hints 
> (we do not exchange presents, mind you), so let that be as it may fall. (My 
> wife's birthday is on 15 March, the Ides of March -- when she was born, that 
> was the date for filing US income tax returns, and, as Bob Hope used to 
> laugh, 'Beware the Ides of March -- it's Income Tax Day!' and, no, 15 April 
> is not the Ides of April.)  My best friend is tied up waiting for her 
> daughter to provide her with her second grandchild, and that takes priority.  
> (Her birthday is on 2 December, the 'day of the bees', Napoleon's lucky day, 
> and I've not missed noting her birthday in a quarter century or so.)  And my 
> son is closing station to return from the Northern Slope in Alaska to 
> civilization, so an oversight on his part will be excusable.
> 
> There is no reason to flood my inbox with notes of congratulation.  I am 
> teasing you Rollei folks.  I have reached 61 without being shot by an 
> honestly affronted husband.
> 
> Be well,
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> 
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