It's been a great birthday so far. J-boy took me treated me to dinner at our favorite Thai restaurant and bought us cheesecake afterwards. I got a completely unexpected gift from a friend on the video gaming community I belong to, and I'm headed out the door in an hour or two to spend the weekend with two of my absolute favorite women in the world - my mother and grandmother. We're going to a concert tonight in Vermont, a singer-songwriter named Anna Coogan, whose music I love. And my big brother called me. Yeah, awesome birthday!