B365V2.29 - Forget me(not)s

     Allow me to take a moment to the nearly 100 or so people that wished me happy birthday, either here, on Facebook, or in person (yes I am a real person after all).  Sorry I didn't respond to each and every one of you but then I would end up with carpal tunnel syndrome and how could I bang out my sometimes regularly scheduled musings here.  But I do not want anyone to think that their posts, or words of well wishing were ignored or unappreciated, they most certainly were. they helped make a typical workday all the more special (no, I am not one of those people who needs to take their birthday off of work, sorry). 

     I will say there were a couple of people who I was hoping to hear from, but for whatever reason they couldn't be bothered to acknowledge the occasion.  Some people I understand, like my mom, who really can't be expected to remember much of anything these days, her mental state being what it is, so the usual birthday card and phone call from her did not take place this year.  For some others, I consider it a slight, however unintended that slight may be and it causes me to reevaluate their presumed status in my life, whether what I have done for them in the past is just a taken for granted type thing.

     Not that I was expecting to be awash in gifts, I grew up poor enough that if I got a cake on my birthday, that was a big deal because it didn't always happen.  Maybe a card or two with a couple of bucks in it, but that would be about it.  So Steve and Belinda getting me a few lottery tickets at work was pretty awesome and Ed stopping on his way in to get a cake (which I did share, if you would have stopped by you could have had some too), but I am web savvy enough that I managed to get a couple of presents online as well, free breakfast at IHOP and a free buffet at Rivers Casino, neither of which I have used yet.  But all in all it was a good birthday, so thanks everyone for that.

     No thanks to Facebook though, who decided to take the occasion to remind me it was two years prior that my ex girlfriend was here.  I didn't need that, and most of you witnessed how that disaster went up in flames, probably because that gave me the kick in the ass to again start posting more regularly.  I had new material to work with an no one censoring me.  Just a tale of one idiot's (mine) stupidity for believing a pack of lies.  Thanks for that Facebook.  Like I needed a refresher course on my past fuckups.