Happy Birthday to Me!
Today is my birthday. Some birthday stuff:
1. My friend Paul and I have decided that I owe my life to the fact that my mother smoked when she was pregnant with me and my brothers. We were all rather large babies, and I think had she been smoke-free when my brother Roby was born, he would have been so big she would have said “That’s it. No more.” Paul thought that maybe, a few years later, feeling pangs of emptiness, my parents would have adopted a Chinese girl and named her Kim. Thus the Blust children would have been Robert and Kim, but no Adam.
2. In talking with some friends about my birthday, and feeling ancient, I trotted out the old chestnut “Well, it’s better than the alternative.” But right after I said it I thought, “I have no idea if that’s true or not.” I told my friend Lynelle today that maybe the afterlife is great. “It better be!” she said.
3. My father named all three of us, which my mother now admits was a blessing. As I’ve already revealed on my about page, she wanted to name me Randall or Randolph so I could be called Randy. In my high school, Randy was this guy who wore his cap with the Caterpillar logo on it at all times, had his senior picture taken with his dog and his gun, and married his pregnant girlfriend before graduation. I am not a Randy. (See #14 on my “100 Things” list.)
Have some cake today, and pretend it’s my birthday cake. This is all I ask.
Happy Birthday Adam!!!! LeChaiim! May you live to 120!
Happy Birthday to my favorite Ant! xoxo.
Happy happy happy happy happy birthday…to you!
Glad you’re still alive! Many happy reruns!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Mr. Blust!
Happy birthday, Adam!
happy birthday bro 🙂
Great imaginary cake! And yeah, happy birthday, guy! ;->}
Ironically, my office celebrated a birthday today, so I already consumed ice cream birthday cake. I can still pretend it was yours. Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, sir!
Felicitations on this most auspicious occasion!
You’re more fun than Kim ever would have been. So I’m glad you’re you.
Kim… Randall… Keymaker?
Happy birthday, your AI alias is blown.
In the Bible, it says “Absent from The Body, present with The Lord”. So no, being stuck on this rock is not better than the alternative. And I agree with your friend. Even if I don’t go home to some Christian glory, the afterlife still had better be good! It can’t be much worse…
Happy Birthday! I think I will have some cake.
Happy belated Birthday! xxx email on its way
I don’t know; Kim might have been cool. But I’m still happier I know you. Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, Adam.
Happy Birthday
(sorry the wish is a day late)
Happy Belated Birthday Cap’n Blast! Your damned present still hasn’t arrived but I’ll bring it over as soon as I get it.