the smedley log - suburban scrawl

Because I’m sure I’m not the only person to suffer from this compulsion…

Have you ever discovered a new blog you really like, and then found yourself rifling through their archives to find out what they posted on your birthday?

you aren’t the only one.

i like to see if anyone was happier (or sadder) than I was on my birthday.

Good to know.

It’s just one of the things I tend to do, but I have no idea why.

Heh. I do that, too. And today happens to be my birthday.

No. But then my wife has a thing about birthdays, e.g., some crazy notion that they have any significance at all. Perhaps you’ve inherited a similar gene complex.

I like a calendar a lot more if my birthmonth is the best picture. And one year “Happy Birthday” was the wheel of fortune.

And happy birthday Yoko – we have halfbirthdays (mine is 8/1). I’ll superremember a childhood friend R’s for being on my half, but almost always forget another friend’s on 1/31 – only a day apart.

So I think we all have birthday weirdness in some way.

Yoko- hope your birthday was a good one!

Steve- maybe I got half that gene complex. My birthdays don’t usually mean much to me (past the aforementioned compulsion), but other folks’ birthdays can seem more significant.

Ellen- I like the calendar thing. I think I used to do that also. And everyone seems to celebrate my half-birthday (New Year’s)

Thanks for the birthday wishes, Ellen and Howard! Heh—it’s nice to see that you guys recognize half-birthdays. I don’t celebrate them, but I do note when they happen.