Birthday Boy

Saturday was my birthday. Barb was out of town visiting Charlotte, NC. We still had stuff there she decided she needed to pick up this weekend. So, she went.

Saturday morning, Bekah woke me up. I asked if I could sleep more. Bekah said no. I needed to wake up. Hence, Brittany delivered a hot plate of birthday-boy breakfast foods. Eggs, corned beef hash, and pancakes with birthday candles alit on them.

Ben brewed my coffee, so I had a fresh cup. I enjoyed a most wonderful breakfast.

I was super tired Saturday, so I just rested. I didn't even shower or change cloths. I ordered delivery Pizza for dinner. I stayed up late though and watched my favorite weekend shows on Adult Swim: Full Metal Alchemist, Inuyasha, and Samurai Shamploo. I have to say though, Samurai Shamploo is a bit strange.

As much as I like Japanese Anime, I can't recommend the show: "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo". It's a show I can't comprehend. You don't believe it's a show? It is, check it out:
http://www.tv.com/bobobo-bo-bo-bobo/show/34817/summary.html?q=bobobo

My 19-year old daughter bought me three things: An MP3 player I picked out at FYE, the DVD "Ciderhouse Rules" (which I highly recommend as a movie), and another DVD I don't think I'll mention here.

Bekah picked out for me (and Barb bought) some plastic food containers and a corresponding "lazy susan" thingy. They're plastic containers of two sizes and the lids that stack on the "lazy susan". After I unwrapped that gift, Bekah washed all the containers and lids and put it together.

I've noticed a few containers in-use now too -- with things like pieces of construction paper in them, etc. Bekah's really enjoying the gift she picked out for me. When she washed the containers, she used like 8 kitchen hand towels. I ended up washing them all yesterday. I didn't want our supply of kitchen hand towels to be depleted.

The boys didn't do much though. I think they contributed some to the MP3 player, but it wasn't terribly expensive ($60.00). What I wanted was a cheapo MP3 player that had a memory expansion slot. That's what I got. It will let you put in up to an additional 512MB as an SD (secure digital) card. It already has 256MB RAM.

Personally, I just don't see the need to spend a huge amount of cash on an MP3 player. A Gigabyte of memory is nice, but a tad excessive for most applications. I can put half a novel on 256MB. If I get an expansion SD, I can probably get a whole novel on it. No biggie.

I put on a book-on-CD on it and let Brittany listen to it Saturday while she worked on a sewing project. Brittany's been combing the yardsales all summer long for velour. She's making a velour blanket. On Saturday, she spent a few hours cutting variously sized squares out of her many pieces of velour garments.

If you've not started downloading Podcasts, check out http://www.ipodder.org/whatIsPodcasting or any other web-site on Podcasting. I already downloaded and listened to the Podcast novel by Scott Sigler (http://www.scottsigler.net/earthcore/) called Earthcore.

Free novels on the Internet all legal like! Wow. I like it already. Plus, Earthcore is a good novel!