A Complete Day

If I should fall from grace with god

Where no doctor can relieve me

If I'm buried 'neath the sod

But the angels won't receive me

Let me go boys

Let me go boys

Let me go down in the mud

Where the rivers all run dry

- from "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" by The Pogues

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Well, well, well...I'm still here.

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I have to say there was a few minutes there where I was a little worried.

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So my 28th birthday turned out to be one of the best ever. I got to see some of my favorite people in the world not once, but twice on my birthday. I started and ended the day with a glass of whiskey in my hand. And people got me gifts, not just any gifts either, but things I actually liked. I'm not big on getting gifts, but it's really nice when people get you something that you end up actually thinking is cool. Couple bottles of liquor and a really cool book about Japanese Batman Comics. I mean come on, that all just screams me.

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The Antioch Christmas party went really well. We had dinner over at Bottagra and it was great. The food was amazing and they gave us our own little room off to the side (do restaurants intuitively know we're trouble when they see us coming?). It was pricey, but well worth it.

Earlier in the day I got to hang out with the kids a bit. Played some games with them and my mom. Had some cake. It was real good.

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Of course once I'd dropped everyone off for the night I stopped back in here at the office to clean my desk off a bit and make a few notes here. And then just before midnight, as I sat here working away my phone lit up with a message. It was someone I hadn't neccesarily expected to hear from with last minute birthday wishes. I chuckled a little at the oddness that is my life and then sat at my desk just grinning for a few minutes. It had been that kind of day.

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After everything that's happened in the past year, everything I've done and gone through, everything I've got my self ready to go through this year...it was the kind of day I needed.

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'Night all...