{"id":7061,"date":"2009-04-28T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=7061"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:11:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:11:41","slug":"birthday-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/28\/birthday-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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I turn 36 on Sunday. Pretty sure I can still claim &#8220;mid-30&#8217;s&#8221; at this point, though I&#8217;m getting perilously close to the &#8220;late-30&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming or recent birthday-related bits include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/03\/24\/weve-got-bikes\/\" title=\"eclecticism: We've got Bikes!\">Prairie and I getting bikes<\/a>. This has been awesome. We&#8217;re both <em>very<\/em> glad that we decided to do this for my birthday, <em>and<\/em> that we went ahead and did it early, a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On Sunday, I&#8217;ll be <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/13\/this-will-disappoint-mom\/\" title=\"eclecticism: This Will Disappoint Mom...\">losing the ponytail<\/a> and sending it off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locksoflove.org\/\" title=\"Locks of Love\">Locks of Love<\/a>. This will mark six years since I decided that if I ever wanted to have long hair again, I better start growing it out <em>now<\/em>. I shaved my head one last time on my 30th birthday, then started letting it grow, and outside of a few trims to take care of split ends, have just let my hair grow since then. As the hairline goes and the forehead grows, though, it&#8217;s time to dodge the skullet bullet and shave it all back down again.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Also on Sunday, we&#8217;ll be going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoo.org\/\" title=\"Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle WA\">the zoo<\/a> to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/woodlandparkzblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/penguins-take-their-first-swim.html\" title=\"Woodland Park Zoo: Penguins Take Their First Swim\">brand-new penguin exhibit<\/a>. H, P, and N will be joining us. <a href=\"http:\/\/woodlandparkzblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/penguins-in-action.html\" title=\"Woodland Park Zoo: Inspiring: Penguins In Action\">Penguins yay<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On Friday the 8th we&#8217;re going to the 7pm showing of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekmovie.com\/\" title=\"Star Trek Movie\">new Star Trek movie<\/a>. Set phasers to &#8216;awesome&#8217; (I hope&#8230;advance word is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/star_trek_11\/\" title=\"Rotten Tomatoes: Star Trek\">looking pretty good<\/a> though).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>At some as-yet unspecified Saturday night in mid- to late-May, I&#8217;ll be heading down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlevogue.com\/\" title=\"Seattle Vogue\">Vogue Night<\/a>. It won&#8217;t really be a birthday party as much as my monthly &#8220;gotta get out and bounce&#8221; night, but if someone were to say hello and perhaps spot me a drink, I doubt I&#8217;d complain.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On July 3rd we&#8217;re going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonwebley.com\/\" title=\"Jason Webley\">Jason Webley<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.yahoo.com\/event\/2489051\/\" title=\"Upcoming: Jason Webley Eleven-Year Anniversary Extravaganza\">11-year Extravaganza concert<\/a> at Seattle&#8217;s Town Hall. This is very exciting for both of us. For a number of years, Jason did two big shows a year, one in fall and one in spring, which would always be very close to either my birthday or Prairie&#8217;s (which is Nov. 3rd, exactly six months after mine). It&#8217;s been a few years since we&#8217;ve been to any of his shows, though, as he&#8217;s been playing venues more suited to his younger, more energetic crowd, and as we&#8217;d prefer to sit in the back and enjoy the show rather than getting pushed about and stepped on (not intentionally or in a mean way, just the kind of thing that happens in a club show atmosphere) by rambunctious young&#8217;uns, we&#8217;ve been less inclined to head down to his more recent Seattle-area shows. Town Hall works very well for everyone, though &#8212; the kids get to bounce around in front of the stage, and us old fogies get to sit in the back and enjoy the music and show &#8212; so we&#8217;re looking forward to this.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And that&#8217;s everything I can think of.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the annual bit of shameless greed*: on the off chance that someone should feel all birthday present-ish, feel free to poke around at my Amazon wishlists (helpfully categorized into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fregistry%2Fregistry.html%3Fie%3DUTF8%26id%3D1PHWNN2CFJBZJ%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Frna%255Fown%255Fwish%255Flist%26reveal%3Dall&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" title=\"Amazon Wishlist: Photography Bits\">photography<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fregistry%2Fwishlist%2F2W0AC00LOXF43%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fwl%255Frlist%255Fgo&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" title=\"Amazon Wishlist: Movies and Music\">audiovisual<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fregistry%2Fwishlist%2F2JZAXPL7DJXM5%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fwl%255Frlist%255Fgo&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" title=\"Amazon Wishlist: Print Media\">literary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fregistry%2Fwishlist%2F1W8ZGIXRKM751%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fwl%255Frlist%255Fgo&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" title=\"Amazon Wishlist: Electronic Gadgets and Gizmos\">gadgets<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fregistry%2Fwishlist%2F1P4IU0ESEJFTS%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fwl%255Frlist%255Fgo&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" title=\"Amazon Wishlist: Random Nifty Bits\">other<\/a>) or just hit the PayPal button on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/about\/\" title=\"eclecticism: About the Author\">my about page<\/a> and contribute to my Nikon D700 fund. ;)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#42; Disclaimer: this is mostly tongue-in-cheek, the economy sucks, and I expect nothing except perhaps some rolling of eyes and gentle mocking. Hugs and\/or kind words are <em>always<\/em> acceptable birthday presents. Still, you never know what might happen, and it can&#8217;t hurt to toss the idea out there, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I turn 36 on Sunday. Pretty sure I can still claim &#8216;mid-30&#8217;s&#8217; at this point, though I&#8217;m getting perilously close to the &#8216;late-30&#8217;s.&#8217; Upcoming or recent birthday-related bits follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[23,719,13,80,193,377,4097],"class_list":["post-7061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-film","tag-jason-webley","tag-life","tag-music","tag-prairie","tag-st09","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}