Highmoon's Ponderings

Well, I’m now 32 years and a day old, and the small party last night was really good.

Click here to see the pics at Flickr.

Since it was a Thursday we just had a small get-together at our place. Yvette, my wife, cooked a delicious chili with cornbread topping that was devoured by all, even the baby. Aftwards, in between commercial breaks for Grey’s Anatomy, they all sang me Happy Birthday and we busted out the culinary star of the night, the scrumptious Nutella cake Yvette made from a recipe by Nigella Lawson.

OMG, what an amazing cake. 

We basically just hung out. My parents-in-law were there, as were our friends Josh & Chris with their two daughters, and my wife’s friend Diana, who sent work to hell to partake of yummy food. After we finished “watching” Grey’s (as much as you can watch a show with two bouncing todlers about), I opened my gifts.

My mother-in-law gave me a ticket to see Shakira in concert in Dec. My wife got one also for her birthday, so we’re all going! Josh & Chris gave me the new Star Wars DVDs with the original, unadultered, undefiled versions of the movies, which is just awesome. Then my wife completely surprised the heck out of me by giving me a 30GB iPod Video!!! It is awesome. I have an iPod Shuffle that I had been using, and that was cool, but I had been hoping for a new iPod Nano, and would have been incredibly happy with one. Instead, my wife left me speechless with the larger, cooler iPod. Now I can keep my gazillion podcasts all organized PLUS have my music with me as well. 

I also got cards from my Mom, Grandparents, Aunt, Sister & Nephew, as well as email cards and good wishes from family and friends, and calls from all my family, including my brother, and my best friends in Puerto Rico. All in all, an excellent time was had, and I thank G-d for these past 32 years and ask for goodness and blessings this coming year and all the rest.

I also got to game last night, at least for a little while, before we had to put it aside. Josh and I started throwing down on a game of Anachronism, but I’ll talk about that later.

Happy birthday to me,
Feliz cumpleaños a mi.
Feliz birthday,
Happy cumpleaños,
Happy birthday/Feliz cumpleaños to/a me. 

Yep, as of 1:05 pm, I am officially 32 years old.

Now let’s see what kind of swag I make out with.

We are currently in the middle of the week of Sukkot and it’s been going great so far. This year, once again, I put up the Popup Sukkah I own and have put up for the last 4 years; I wanted to make an actual sukkah, but it just didn’t happen, a combination of procrastination, lack of time and lack of space. Maybe next year I’ll be able to finally put up an actual, constructed sukkah.

While I always say to myself that I want to go around the area and photograph all the sukkot people have put up, to this day I have never gotten around to doing it. I did take a picture of the sukkah at my synagogue:

My wife and I went to eat at the sukkah at shul for the first two days of Sukkot and we had a lot of fun.

I like Sukkot!

The video of the mechanical tiger in Brugge keeps climbing the charts at YouTube. Check out the current honors the video has earned as of 10/11:

• #6 – Most Discussed (This Month) – Travel & Places – All
• #13 – Most Discussed (This Month) – Travel & Places – English
• #10 – Top Rated (This Month) – Travel & Places – All
• #9 – Top Rated (This Month) – Travel & Places – English
• #9 – Most Viewed (This Month) – Travel & Places – All
• #4 – Most Viewed (This Month) – Travel & Places – English
• #3 – Top Favorites (This Month) – Travel & Places – All
• #2 – Top Favorites (This Month) – Travel & Places – English

In addition, it has gotten 24,000+ views at YouTube, and the thread over at the Dragon’s Landing Inn forums where I first posted about the tiger has gotten 7,200+ views!

I just posted about this to ENWorld, Fear The Boot and Harping Monkey, so I can truly spread this awesomeness over the whole of geekdom!

(Originally posted to my Blogger account at http://dmperez.blogspot.com/)

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