Let me start this birthday offering by saying I have failed you. I had placed the idea in the back of my cranium at some point this week that I would take my camera with me this morning to get pictures of all of the breakfast goodness that was going to take place. Sammy and I crashing Deluca's for breakfast sundaes just seemed like such a good idea. And to work up an appetite for it, we were going to bike over from town and then bike back to work afterward, if our bikes could handle the extra weight that comes with a breakfast sundae.
So I set my alarm, bright and early. 4:30am to be precise. And it went off right on cue. Now I have an issue with the snooze button. Many people have alarm clocks that when you hit the snooze button youi get 9 or 10 more minutes of sleep. I have a tricked out to the nines alarm clock. When the power goes out, it actually keeps time until it comes back on without a battery. The display disappears but once the power comes back I do not have to reset it. Another cool feature is I can set my snooze timer. For everytime I press the snooze button I can add ten minutes to my snooze total. So that 4:30am wake up buzz was nice, but not so nice that I didn't give the clock ye olde three tap for an extra 30 minutes. And another tap after that. And another. All of a sudden my waking up at 4:30 am was turning into me getting out of bed at 5:40am, and I still had to get dressed (they frown upon wearing only boxer shorts at Deluca's) and get my bike in gear, since I had it in mothballs all week. One of my birthday presents to myself was a weekly bus pass so that I could go elsewhere this week after work, like the trip to the movies yesterday. But since I told Sammy I would meet him in town and we would bike over, if I show up sans bike, that would just be highly uncool. So in my hurriedness to get ready and get out the door I left the camera behind. On the plus side, getting out the door at 6:05am I managed to meet up with Sammy right on time, which we always schedule for 6:30am. (That time by the way is carved in stone, so any would be stalkers out there, if you know I am going to Deluca's, you now know what time I will meet Sammy for said trip.)
It is a shame I didn't bring the camera too, because the sundaes looked absolutely fantabulous. Sammy got a banana split on a waffle, which looked yummy in it's own right. But mine was better, something I don't always say about Deluca's, there are times when I have went there where even though my food was amazing, I would look at the plate of who I went with and thought to myself, I should have got that instead. But today was not one of those days. My sundae had three cinnamon bun hotcakes, a liberal amount of warm apple pie filling, a scoop of french vanilla ice cream covered in a heaping gob of whipped cream with a cherry on top and warm caramel sauce drizzled over the whole thing. It was worthy of a picture and I should have taken one, but I didn't so you will just have to rely on my description of said gloriousness.
The day was productive as well, we managed to get the syncing of the registers done, Shawn did his part off site while I ran the manual register upstairs until he was finished, a process that like he claimed, took all of about 5 minutes. I think I did maybe $35 in sales and am still at a loss why we couldn't have done this sooner. I also got to use my newly minted office key, yes I have become “that” guy now, the one who goes in the office and enjoys the splendors of air conditioning. I also had a couple of things I needed to fix, one of the Polar Shock machines was empty and I needed to get it up and running, and of course there was my order to take care of.. But all of that happened with nary a hitch, and when I got home there were plenty of messages awaiting me on Facebook, enough so that I will actually steal a few of them and comment on them over here, rather than go up and down my Facebook wall (sorry Facebook peeps, I do most of my writing here). And I am not going to comment on each and every birthday wish, that would take a while longer than I have this evening, I still have to thank my mom for my birthday card and see about plans for going home next weekend. A blogging road trip perhaps? I haven't done that since Christmas, but we will see how the conversation goes before confirming those plans one way or the other.
Anyway without further ado, some of the fine comments from Facebook.........
Agung Dramoh Happy Birthday Matt
Yesterday at 2:22pm - This would be the first on many messages and thus gets recognized as such. I should note that part of the reason some of my well wishes were so early is that for some people it was already my birthday even while I had only visions of hotcake sundaes dancing in my head.
Lee Taylor Happy Birthday Matt. Hope that you have a great day
Yesterday at 3:23pm - Proof of how old I really am, I remember when Lee was single, lol
Multiply 365 Day 168 - They say it's almost your birthday
Well birthday weekend got off to what should have been a good start and who knows maybe somewhere down the road I will look on it fondly and with a certain amount of sati... Top of Form 1
20 hours ago via Multiply – Yes I do have my blogs fed to my Facebook page. It does nothing for readership round here, but then I don't read most of the stuff I see there either.
Brian Merkel Happy Hatch Day, Matt!
16 hours ago - If I were hatched that would explain a lot. Now I have something else to ask my mother about when I call home.
Pamela P Happy birthday!!!!"
13 hours ago via Android – The first greeting from someone that I met through Multiply. And since she opts not to have her name on her blog page, you can't get it from me either.
Lynn Meyer KimmelHappy Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful day!
11 hours ago – Amazingly, this would be the first ever girl I had a crush on, way back in 6th grade, when K Tel albums were all the rage. I still remember the note I slipped her in Miss Elgin's class, and the innocently awesome 6 months where we were boyfriend – girlfriend. I even remember the first time I kissed her, walking her to her bus after school. If only all relationships could end so well, but usually mine are of the scorched earth variety.
Melanie S. Orr hoping you have a terrific day, sounds like you already started celebrating yesterday so I imagine it is already off to a great start :-) Go have a Cuban sandwich for dinner, that will round out the festivities!
11 hours ago – This would be one of my many cousins, I lose track of how many I have, probably because I have run out of fingers and toes to count them on. For the record I did go to Burgers and Rice Bowl for dinner, but opted for the Chicken Teriyaki dinner with steamed broccoli and egg roll instead of my normal Cuban sandwich.
Joshua Jacob Crosbie Have a great day matt! Miss your wit on the radio.
11 hours ago – See, I wasn't lying when I said I worked in radio, and for the record I miss my wit on the radio too. But you just have to play the cards you are dealt and right now my cards do not involve that medium, I am relegated to this one. But many thanks for listening to me, even if most of the time I was the guy getting in the way of the real radio stars (Lynn, Doug, Jerry).
Carol DukesHappy Birthday Matt ! Party like a rock star .....
9 hours ago - Now where did I put that coke? Bob Walker, don't you dare laugh at that or I will have your car towed, lol.
Steven Holtzman have a great birthday Big P!
9 hours ago - Long time readers may remember one of the funniest stories I ever told on this blog, the “Big P butters the roll” story. Say hi to one of the culprits in making for a very uncomfortable evening for me with the girlfriend on that particular occasion.
Don Andrascik Happy Birthday Matt!
9 hours ago - My fantasy hockey league commissioner. Be prepared, next season is mine, all mine.
Chris Shovlin Matt......Happy Birthday! I hope all is well with you.
7 hours ago – One of the best guys I had the pleasure of working with in radio, a veritable jack of all trades. Last I checked he was running the promotions department for three stations, hosting an evening drive show on 1320 WJAS, doing sports play by play for Robert Morris University as well as for Fox Sports Net Pittsburgh during their high school sports coverage. The fact one guy has to do that much is both a testament to Chris's talents and a sad indictment of how stretched thin much of the media is in order to save a couple of bucks.
Matt just won 50 birthday Swag Bucks at Swagbucks.com www.swagbucks.com
Birthdays are more rewarding at Swagbucks.com.
6 hours ago - Yes, every year you are signed up with Swagbucks you get 50 bucks just for getting older. So every 9 years I can get a $5 Amazon gift card.
Greg Kuntz Happy B-Day, Matthew. God Bless and Be With You Always. BTW, "The waxing on the floor is complete."
3 hours ago – A disciple of Chad Vader and my partner in radio crime from the production booth. Sadly toward the end we knew one of us would be let go, the change in format of the station pretty much meant one of us would be cut loose in the next cost cutting measure, and I drew the short straw in that bit. I remember the last thing I said before I picked up my things to go, “Don't forget to turn out the lights.”
I could go on, god knows there are literally three pages of birthday wishes, so if you didn't get one of the highlighted posts, nothing personal, but there is only so much copy and pasting I can be expected to do on my birthday. Besides I just got some more good news on the phone, but rather than take this blog in another direction, I will save it for now, it is not a must get to. It just means I have a few different blog topics I can run with come Sunday. But for now I am going to enjoy the rest of Saturday if that is okay with everyone.
Happy Birthday Multiply style Matt ~ many more
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about that just the other day, it's got to be 9-10 years now...my son just turned 20 and he was 12 when I came over here! I'd been a regular hiker for a couple of years before then & you were one of the first people I met on there ;)
ReplyDeleteIn the old vernacular, it has been many a moon.
ReplyDeleteI'm mad I didn't get to see the birthday sundae. I want my disappointment noted for the sake of posterity.
ReplyDeleteI could go again tomorrow, but two sundaes in two days would be a bit much, I usually save them for special occasions.
ReplyDeleteThough I think I found a pic of the Funky Monkey sundae, which I had New Year's Day.
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How can you start a year bad with something that good?
I hope you had a great birthday. The sundae sounds really good. Ice cream for breakfast is a cool idea
ReplyDeleteWow has it really been that long? Well yeah I guess it has. I remember when you were Satan's minion, how times have changed lol. Its nice that we have had a friendship that has withstood many years of change and for many years to come as well. You're a damn good bloke in my books mate, don't let anyone ever tell you, you're not. I'm so jealous of your breakfast btw. Sounds just aswesome.
ReplyDeleteWell the breakfasts aren't hard to make at home I imagine, provided you have all of the necessary sundae toppings. Then it is just a matter of making the right pancakes. And yes, it most certainly has been that long, as you are about to find out in just a few days, lol.
ReplyDeleteIntrigued Master Luke, Yoda is.
ReplyDeleteHa! I'm just getting around to reading this, thanks for your discretion :)
ReplyDeleteBTW I can't believe between the two of you neither had a camera phone to snap a pic! wth??
ReplyDeleteWell I don't carry a cell phone at all (i refuse to be bothered if I am not at home) and Sammy didn't have his with him. Like i said, I had planned on grabbing my actual camera but forgot in the rush to get out the door.
ReplyDeleteI think I now have a franchise all my own, lol
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