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Yesterday was my 45th birthday. It was a pretty low-key birthday. I strayed from my diet and had a couple of slices of pizza for dinner, and I allowed myself a buttered roll in the morning, but I didn't go overboard with anything. I had the idea today to look back on what I might have been doing on and around my birthday, since I started this blog. So here's a pretty random list of stuff, assembled by looking back at my Blogger archives.

2003

• I went to Comic-Con that year. (I was making reservations in March. I'm going again this year, after skipping it for a few years.)
• I was reading Sinfest, which I haven't been following lately, but is apparently still around (and still funny).

2004

• I was reading "His Dark Materials", and listening to Rum Diary.
• I had just gotten the 90,000 mile service done on my 97 Civic. (I got my 2008 Accord inspected yesterday. It's got about 45k miles on it.)

2005

• Windows XP was giving me grief.
• I was listening to Warren Ellis' "Superburst Mixtape" podcast. (That's long gone. He has a new one named SPEKTRMODULE now, which I've been listening to recently, and is quite good.)

2006

• I was watching Samurai Champloo on Cartoon Network. (I have it on Blu-Ray now, but I haven't gotten around to re-watching it.)

2007

• I bought "The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases" at WonderCon. (I still haven't finished reading it. It is really funny though.)

2008

• I got my first Kindle. I've since traded that in for a new one, but I still haven't read some of the books I loaded onto that first one (and later transferred to the second).

And that's about where I feel like I should end this. I'm feeling weirder than usual about my birthday this year, for various reasons. But I can't complain. I've been able to spend time with several really good friends over the last couple of weeks, and I think I'll likely enjoy this coming weekend too, so that's all I can really ask for.

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