...that it's my birthday. I'm not really a big fan of birthdays. Every year I do my best to avoid mine. However, every year it smacks me in the face.

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Many of you might have been asking, "Where have you been over the past month?"

"We can't live without your insight and your wit,” you continue.

How kind you are!

Over the past month I have been very busy with a secret time-machine project. It was my hope that by this date I would have conquered the time-space continuum. I failed.

I must now revert to "Plan B." From now on I will be counting in base 13. Congratulate me; I just turned 24!

Invigorated by my newfound youth I will start my near daily writings.

In the humans vs. websites battle, it looks like the humans are going to win. The websites got off to an impressive lead. Yahoo, Avsforum, Webshots, Excite, and MyPoints all had wished me a 'Happy Birthday' by the time I woke up. However, much like the hare, the websites (thinking that they were secure in their lead) took the rest of the day off. This is when the humans started to make up some ground. Birthday wishes came in sure but steady. By noon humans had regained the lead. The afternoon brought a few remaining 'Happy Birthdays' from Team DNA. In the end, I think that victory was attained through the neural net run by the mothers and mother-in-laws.

Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday, dear me.
Happy Birthday to me.

If anyone out there was looking for a birthday present for me this is it.