Thanks, and the Kevin Smith reference is correct. I love his comedies, Mallrats is one of my favorite movies.
The birthday was fun but pretty tame. I am kind of afraid to go out nowadays and I don't want to spend money on bar's jacked up booze price, even if my friends would buy me drinks. Instead I went to an all you can eat BBQ/Fried chicken, etc buffet and came home and ate cake and stayed up late with friends in my house.
I may or may not have slowly been drinking all day so I didn't stay up that late. All the booe and three plates of bbq will bring down anyone. I like partying as much as I always did but I am too slow to run from cops/thugs now and I am the old guy in the club. I have a beastly beard now too, I think it will have been growing for a month now. Some weirdos don't like beards for some reason. I wash it with good shampoo and brush it, it's a sweet beard, just some are prejudiced.
No one I voted for won and that pissed me off but then it's my birthday the next day and the commercials finally stop. I live in a swing state and we have had these commercials for almost a full year. "So and so hates babies. You're not a baby hater are you? Paid for by the other whatshisname". On and on like this and I have a dvr but still, on the radio, newspaper, and the endless talking heads of the 24 hour news. I am glad that can all end and I could have my birthday at the same time. Even though all my guys (and one woman) I voted for lost, it was like a gift just to have all the venom dialed back a shade and people going back to hating each other for normal things besides this right or left nonsense.
I got some cool presents and it was a quality day and to find this thread was awesome. I have seen a few and I say happy birthday or try to make a joke for people I have interacted with before on the site. But it's nice to have one on my birthday. I have grown apart from some friends and family and not hearing from them on my birthday blows, having something here almost evens it out. I liked it, sorry for the wall of text. Thanks again.