Birthday wishes

When the teachers called Nelly's name in middle school during roll, did he say "Hurrrrrr?"


Happy birthday to Joel. He's 26, and he's gonna spend the night covering a women's basketball game and then hitting the college bars with JR, Grant and me. Aside from Grant, we all qualify for the 25 & older lounge at any college. It'll be a hoot. Joel's birthday always carries special significance for me. His birthday always hovers around the Super Bowl, and as a result, many of his birthday parties were also Super Bowl parties. Who can forget playing NCAA basketball on the Super Nintendo. Wake Forest had some guy that never missed 3's. I think I scored 80 points with him one game. Or watching Denver lose 55-10. Or me throwing down a dunk so hard that I broke Stuart's basketball hoop? Or catching a pass in the annual halftime touch football game, turning upfield and getting tackled by Joel's mom's rare Japanese tree. That was the last super bowl party I was invited to. I was banned from his house for life that day. True story. I've only been to his house a few times since, and every time I think his mom watches me with an evil all-seeing eye.

I finally broke down and paid for MP3 Downloading. I'm pleased as punch with this though. When someone says something that reminds me of Pimp Juice, I want to be able to download Nelly. When Rachel hears a song on The OC, she should be able to download it without paying $16.99 for the whole cd. Some songs aren't even available on cd's. Some Afroman songs aren't even on CD's. Thus the necessity for downloading music. So I'll gladly pay $48 a year for this service.

today's shaping up to be a great day. I've got a basketball game tonight, downloading obscure music, The OC, Joel's birthday.....On the potential scale, today gets a 10.5.

If don't aim for the stars, you can never land in the clouds. But if you pick a weak cloud, you'll land on the ground. Hard. That's a long fall.