{"id":390,"date":"2011-08-01T18:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/notranting\/?p=390"},"modified":"2011-08-01T21:41:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T21:41:02","slug":"the-dread-day-dawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/notranting\/2011\/08\/01\/the-dread-day-dawns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dread Day Dawns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a few people over on Facebook have noticed, today is my birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n

And as a few people around here will have worked out from an earlier post<\/a>, this birthday is Officially A Biggie (people tell me).<\/p>\n

It is also the only birthday that shares its digits-given-separately expression with an urban slang term for the police.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(That was especially for aficionados of the wonderful show The Wire<\/a><\/em>, whose first series I got on DVD as one of my birthday presents).<\/p>\n

The above image, which sums up my feeling du jour nicely, came on a Birthday Card from my mother, who shares my taste for mordant humour.<\/p>\n

Now, as I said over on Fb, in my family we don’t really do<\/em> Big Birthday Bash stuff after the age of forty. I seem to remember having four separate birthday celebrations for that one. But this time, it is going to be low key. A nostalgic curry later, and probably a slightly bigger bash with some of the extended family in a week or so’s time. And no-one is around at work at the moment, so the party there will have to wait for September… Think a bit of a dispensation is allowed at my age.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’ve had a nice quiet weekend leading up to my birthday – and been able to enjoy England winning at cricket<\/a> (second game in a row, yet). Some with birthdays this week haven’t been so lucky – like that young whippersnapper The US Prez,<\/a> who has been spending the weeks leading up to his<\/em> 50th this Thursday\u00a0battling to get a debt crisis deal.<\/a><\/p>\n

All things considered, I’d rather have my spot than his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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