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It's my birthday! I'm 30! holy crap!

I just got word that a major project is now behind schedule and won't hit it's install date by enough of a margin that my built-in estimate padding is useless as well, and I'll have to inform senior management that we're changing the install date.

But hey, it's my birthday!
And it's a gorgeous day with the temperature in the 80's! That counts for something... right?

Trying not to let work ruin my good mood.

I want to compile a list of things to accomplish in this decade, anyone have suggestions for me?
What should I do before the tens digit rolls over again?
Serious, silly, all will be accepted and considered.

Lovin' life. :-)

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Making that kind of list requires a confession of the things you've already accomplished! (so we can find new ideas, you see!)

Oh, and Happy Birthday!

Edited 2010-04-07 17:42 (UTC)

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday. Swim the Hellespont, maybe?

Woo milestone birthdays! Happiness!

I think you should take an enormous and overly ambitious woodworking project and actually see it through to completion. Bonus points if it's something you'll use in the house (like a bed or table) and can pass on down generations.

I will go hide from the slappy hands of the prosicated now, for encouraging you to take on more woodworking stuff than you already have. ;D But the key idea was to actually finish the whole production, so you can have a craft object to be proud of. That'd be great to point to at the end of the decade. "I made that!"

congrats!

I actually liked being 30. (31 was no fun, but I have high hopes for 32)

happy birthday!!

i second the woodworking project finishing idea :)

OMG! You're so *OLD*!!!! ;-) ;-)

here's your suggestion for your next decade:

At least once a year for the next ten years pick something you want, that you have no idea whether you can have or not, whether you can accomplish or not, or even whether you're really sure it's the best of possible things you could pick, and proclaim unequivocally "I want this!" and go after it.

:)

Happy Birthday! Make a wish. :)

Happy birthday!!!

Happy Birthday!

I remember you talking about making a bass a few years ago. Did you ever do that? If so, congrats, and I'm sorry for missing it! But if not, that seems like a good project...

happy birthday!

couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. ;)

Happy birthday! (I am so terrible at birthdays, so i am grateful for people who remind me of them in a very public and obvious way.)

Edit your previous to-do-before-you-die list. Give yourself permission to give up on the things you no longer actually want, but but have been meaning to do for so long that you're totally in a rut about 'em. Then do it -- give up, make apologies, give shit away, do whatever you need to do to let go of that angst. If there are obvious omissions - things you'd like to do, but think you can't because there are so many other things to do first, now's the time to add them.

Make a pact with yourself to kiss your wife and tell her you love her (and really mean it) every single day for the next ten years.

I have no useful suggestions, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Happy happy happy! And fun fun, with the voip. :/

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday! :)

happy day-later birthday.

bicycle from where you live to your folks place?

and many joyous returns of the day.

I'm not at all fond of the "Do X by Y" type projects. Mostly it feels like you're doing a lot of right things - make a loving family, create the home you want to live in, keep your work interesting and have an idea of how to move it forward, do things that help you define who you are.

If you can keep doing those five things over this next decade I can't see how you'd go wrong.

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