This past weekend, Saturday April 9 2005, I turned 30. I am now an old man.

Thirty, however, seems to be a much larger number than it actually is. I was expecting perhaps rheumatism and arthritis. Perhaps a few chronic conditions. None of these things have, as of yet, seen fit to manifest themselves.

What did manifest itself was an iPod Mini via the lady. I have to take a moment to appreciate the abject wonderfulness manifested in a fiancé that gifts me with an iPod Mini for my passing into the decade of irrelevance. I must take a moment to point out the wonder of a lady who plays my little nerd games with me and makes me feel like less of a nerd. I would like to express to the community at large how precious this individual is to me and how the simple knowledge that she is there for me quiets the demons-- how it makes them irrelevant.

I also recognize that a lady who buys her fiancé an iPod Mini for his birthday is broke and so you should all send her money!

And I now return you to your regularly scheduled radio silence from me.