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Monday, July 14, 2008
Today I am 37
Happy birthday to me, I’m officially in my “upper 30s.”
Here it is, 37 years old, and A) the Belgians just purchased Anheuser-Busch and B) Brett Favre can’t leave well enough alone and stay retired.
From what I understand, Belgium has excellent beer. Why do they have to mess with my beer? Why do I fear a “New Coke” moment is on its way?
And Favre is on the road from transitioning from someone I would tell my son about in reverent tones to “Daddy, why is that old man wearing a football helmet?”
That’s what’s troubling me today, a welcome break from war, politics and people doing bad things to kids.
Today I’m back on the job after about two weeks of vacation and I feel all right, I guess. The boy is doing well — his most recent discovery is that if he brings me a book, I will read it to him — but that wasn’t the most exciting thing of the past week.
No, I sold something on eBay. Not something valuable. Not something useful. No, I sold a dancing Coke can from nearly 20 years ago … that does not work. And I said so on my listing.
I basically said “this is a piece of junk, but you might be drunk enough to buy it anyway.”
And someone did.
Very exciting. What else can I sell?
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