生日快乐: Sheng Ri Kuai Le

Yup, it's that time of year again. The year where all the stops come out, my family and friends get together at dinner after climbing and tell the Red Robin server that it's my birthday, they sing me the "adult version" of the happy birthday song (stop thinking dirty thoughts), and then I get to eat enough ice cream to send a small country into diabetic shock.

It was a good one, too. I had a good day at work, I went climbing, and I had a tasty calorific meal. It's good stuff. My wonderful bestest wife ever bought me Smash Brothers Brawl for the Wii and a bottle of Inniskillin, a tasty tasty ice wine. Now my stomach feels like the size of a small celestial body and it's nearly time for bed.

So, thank you Bear, Amanda, Ken, Sam, Tim, Sam, and Tim (yes, there were two of each of those, I promise, though one of the Sams has girl parts). I had a great evening.

PS - In case you haven't figured it out by now, the title is the way to say "Happy Birthday" in Chinese. Pronounced "shung er quai luh." And if you see question marks or something weird like that, it's because you don't have the language pack for Chinese installed. I'm fortunate enough to be running a real operating system, not this crappy Windows junk that sucks and tells you what to do all the time, and then fails to do it properly.

PPS - It must be the malaria scare!