I’d like to give a little shout out to my brother-in-law Derek, whose birthday we will be celebrating tomorrow even though his birthday was last Thursday. Having birthdays on weekdays usually sucks gym socks. In this case his special “day” was on Thursday. Nobody’s paying attention because everyone’s at work and going about their weekly chores. We needed to decide whether to have a joyous time on Thursday or at the end of this week.

Tomorrow it is!

My birthday was on a Saturday this year so I got to spread out the good cheer over a couple of days. But poor ol’ Derek gets the ‘coin toss’. “When do you want to celebrate your birthday, Derek?” But look at this way buddy, next year you’ll be looking at a Friday night birthday party straight in the eyes!

It’ll be fun tomorrow when we get to see you and eat good food and pretend it’s your magical day.

My wife was picking out candles at the store. She picked up the kind that are actually numbers. Holding a “7″ in her left hand and a “3″ in her right, I said (as I looked over her shoulder) “Wow he doesn’t look a day over 32!”

I crack myself up. She decided on the regular, old fashioned candles. I think they should make question mark candles. That’s what I want on my cake. Next year on a Sunday.

Happy Birthday Derek!