{"id":3038,"date":"2009-09-22T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2009-09-23T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T18:10:58","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/happy-birthday-to-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night Charlotte took me out to get my birthday present, a BB Gun!<\/p>\n

When I was a kid, my neighbor Anthony Bancala (spelling?) had a BB gun that he’d shoot occationally in his back yard. Actually, I can only remember seeing him shoot once. But that’s enough to implant it in my psyche.<\/p>\n

And I remember shooting a pellet gun at a cub scout camp once. I really liked having to focus in. Apparently none of the other kids shot as well; my dad showed real astonishment at how accurately I shot.<\/p>\n

Now I have a BB gun and nowhere to shoot it in the city. Who wants to go shooting?<\/p>\n

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\nCharlotte took me to dinner last night at Linguini’s in Alameda. It was a really terrific meal, partially because their Frutti De Mare was terrific and partially because she was there.<\/p>\n

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\nBefore dinner and before the BB gun, we took the Alameda Oakland ferry<\/a> from the Ferry Building. Wow, it’s like paying $5 to go on a floating dream that actually takes you someplace. I feel like I dozed in some Maxfield Parish painting for maybe an hour or possibly a year. Nice.<\/p>\n

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\nMy niece called me today on my birthday.<\/p>\n

Julia<\/strong>: Hi, where are you? (she always wants to play with me on the computer, I VNC to her computer)
\nLee<\/strong>: More important than where am I is what today is…
\nJulia<\/strong>: Oh yeah, today is your birthday.
\nLee<\/strong>: [excited] yeah!
\nJulia<\/strong>: Dont be too happy. You know Rhino, my hampster? He died… today… on your birthday.<\/p>\n

I guess that puts things in perspective!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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