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August 31, 2007

This Day in History

Selected events of August 31:

1997 - Princess Diana dies
1963 - Walter Cronkite began his stint as anchor of the "CBS Evening News."
1899 - Stanley Steamer reaches Mt. Washington summit
1897- Edison patents the Kinetograph
1889 - Jack the Ripper claims first victim
1939- Germany prepares for invasion of Poland

And in 1972, all 10 lbs., 15 oz. of me came kicking and screaming into the world. I share a birthday with Chris Tucker, Debbie Gibson, Richard Gere, Van Morrison, Itzhak Perlman and the Roman emperors Commodus and Caligula. I have no elaborate plans for the day - I'm going to spend it with my family, relaxing.

I figure that's the best way to ignore the fact I'm a year closer to death.

Ahhh... - A good birthday. I gots me some presents and had a birthday dinner of homemade fried chicken with my family. This weekend, I get another birthday party of sorts - a friend and I have our birthdays close to one another so we decided to throw a joint party with friends. We're calling it the Great Beast Feast, since we've got, I kid you not, 30 pounds of meat to grill.

We're going to grill until something goes extinct.

Posted by slublog at August 31, 2007 06:48 PM

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