Birthdays
Birthday Wishes
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To my grandnephew Elijah, who is 3 today.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To Ida Cummings.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To former blogger Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Christina of Feisty Repartee.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Xrlq.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To my sister Lynn, who is 51 today.
I recently realized that in three years, none of the five of us will be under 40, only two will be under 50, and the oldest will hit 57. Yet… it doesn’t feel old.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Daniel the History Nerd.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To my good friend Tom, who was also born in 1961. We met in 9th grade and hit it off.
Tom is the friend who coined “Jay Solo” as a pseudonym for me. Every reference you see to me under that name, and perhaps the entire fact that the online world knows me by my middle name? His fault. Which includes the fact that I met a wife who knew me up front as “Jay,” and therefore didn’t have cognitive dissonance in that regard when around my family, about the only way I possibly could have. He also got me hooked on letter writing, though that may have happened anyway, which was the precursor to blogging, which was the logical outlet for a pent up urge to write similarly that burst forth starting in 2003. Not until then only because I resisted. I could easily have been one of those who started in 2002.
My life would be a dramatically different thing without his influence, the good outweighing the questionable. I think.
Here’s to many good years before the game is up.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To my nephew Jonathan, who is 13 today.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Jay: No Birthdays
For the last time this month, it’s a day with no birthdays to post. I could have sworn I had one for the 25th, but it’s not in my calendar, so none it is.
This is the first day of what will be Deb’s “permanent” schedule, until next time it changes. At least from my perspective, since I think Monday through Sunday, while the employer’s week is Saturday through Friday. Where last week it was Tuesday and Wednesday off, this week and presumably beyond it will be Monday and Tuesday. Which makes them my prime work days, and days when leaving the house is easiest. Obviously with a running car the kids fit in, I can go places with all of them, or can get someone to sit while I am able to go if needed. Part of the reasoning behind two weekdays off instead of at least one weekend day off is that we only have three days to cover during the traditional business week, if I am engaged fully during that at any point, even for short bursts.
Since it’s the first day she goes back after two off, that means it stands to be more… interesting, as the kids have to adjust again. On the other hand, with hours the same each day, it all works more smoothly than it did with alternating shifts.
Perhaps I can even do something useful today… perhaps even remunerative. What a concept!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To my grandmother, who is an amazing 92 today.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To former blogger Paul Burgess, who is 52 today.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Jay: No Birthdays
Another day with no birthdays to mention, and so it gets a placeholder post. Don’t you feel special?
This is a full working day for me, whatever that may entail, as it’s an off day for Deb. In effect, we both “work” seven days a week, and let it never be said that taking care of the kids - or house, to the degree the kids allow it - is either “not work” or “woman’s work.” I’d like to think we’re a bit more enlightened than that in 2008. It is 2008, right? Yeah.
Some of these posts, and the birthdays, have been pre-posted in a batch, dated for the appropriate time, so I don’t have to get up every single morning and post any birthdays there may be, or feel obligated to post something to keep the blog looking lively. Presumably there’s been some stuff between the batch posts, but if not, well, it’s something anyway.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To my former colleague Maureen Kirby, who shares my birth year of 1961.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger John Cole.
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