{"id":284,"date":"2005-02-12T23:39:44","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T06:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/12\/birthday_week.html"},"modified":"2008-06-07T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T05:06:12","slug":"birthday_week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/12\/birthday_week.html","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been lucky enough to be the “Birthday Prince” before, but I guess this one called for something out of the ordinary. I think we’ve been celebrating my birthday since sometime around MLK Day, and hey, it’s almost Valentine’s Day now. Friday night, Aimee threw a bash for me at her place, complete with appetizers, party streamers, and the inaugural use of our AirPort Express<\/a> (combined with Party Shuffle™ and AirTunes<\/a>).

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\"30_chris.jpg\"The twenty of us had a great time hanging out – it’s always fun to see people from different circles getting along. The J.P. Licks Oreo ice cream cake was amazing, and the margaritas and cosmopolitans Mark concocted were popular as well. I consented to putting on the “Prince” crown, and enjoyed the chance to catch up with Michael (planning wedding, weird car accident experience in CA last month), Josh (working a lot, freaky neighbor issues), Chris (pleased to be here on the right day, having shown up on a Friday night a month ago thinking the party was that night), and Dan (not much to catch up on; got a haircut since I’d seen him earlier that afternoon).

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\"30_crown_of_fire.jpg\"My crown isn’t really on fire, it just looks that way. The party lasted until around 2 am, which, for this old man, was an hour not recently seen on a Friday night. Thanks to everyone who came!

After another appointment<\/A> at Firefly Press, we spent a relaxing day at Aimee’s place. The party wasn’t over yet, though… Last night, Aimee’s family had a joint party for me and for Aimee’s aunt, another member of the February 6th club. We had some terrific food, a great evening with the kids, a phone call from Aimee’s dad in Amsterdam, and some great presents, including the Citizen Kane snow-globe, which will take its rightful place in my office (that is, of course, until it rolls out of my hand and onto the floor…). More Mac gifts, too – the new iLife<\/A> suite as well as an iTunes gift card. Excellent! But now I think it’s over, and time to get used to thirty the reality, as opposed to thirty the occasion. Not so bad, really.

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I’ve never been lucky enough to be the “Birthday Prince” before, but I guess this one called for something out of the ordinary. I think we’ve been celebrating my birthday since sometime around MLK Day, and hey, it’s almost Valentine’s Day now. Friday night, Aimee threw a bash for me at her place, complete with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}