300, Early Bday, dry

Today I plan to give a 300 another shot.  No watch, just looking to survive it.  My body is far from recovered from the volleyball tournament.

Well I am officially old.  Last night I opened up my birthday present from mom which included gambling money for Vegas as well as an Old Guys Rule t-shirt.  Mom thought I may think the shirt was stupid but actually I kinda like it, it’s funny.  I wore it to work today.

I opened the door to my office and let out an “Oh crap…”  Evidently the little office gremlins invaded my office after I left work yesterday and did this.

Nothing welcomes you to the old age club like an office decorated in black.  I used to always laugh at the people that had this done to them.  Now I am one of those people.  The only positive I can muster is some people in the office were quite surprised to learn I was going to be 40. 

So what have I learned from being on this planet for almost four decades?  Well I learned that as your age is accelerating, the passing of time seems to accelerate at twice that rate.  A year today seems to fly by.  When I was 12 years old, a year was FOREVER.  I have learned that as you get older it is very hard to not admit that you carry with you many of the traits you observed in your parents as you were growing up, both good and bad.  I now understand how grumpy old men become grumpy old men.  Taking the time to actually think about the world around you can be a really negative thing, at least for me.

In the big picture, I am in a better position than many at 40 both financially and physically.  Mentally is up for debate.  When I was 18 did I think my life would travel the path that it has?  Absolutely not, but I think it is pretty safe to say that hardly anybody is able to have the luxury of having life go as planned.  There is not much point for me to ramble about being 40, it happens, there is nothing that can be done about it, shut up and move on.

They enacted the next phase in water restrictions which I believe is Phase IV.  You will only be allowed to water your lawns once a week during a four hour window.  Phase III allowed it twice a week and Phase II allowed it 3 times a week.  I am not surprised it has come to this.  The fact that we went an entire wet season without appreciable standing water on our property says a lot.  The rain totals for the current year could match the lowest numbers dating back to the 50’s.

Every day for lunch I have a Breakstone’s fruit/cottage cheese combo.  Well I noticed that every single raspberry one I opened this week was bad.  The normally red raspberry part had a brownish tint and a less than pleasing smell.  After opening the 4th one today, I finally called them and told them about it.  Every one that was bad had an expiration date of December 25th on it.  The woman I talked to was very nice.  She asked for all the numbers on the package, asked me where I got it, how many I bought and said they would refund me for them.  She said that it is possible that somewhere along the distribution chain that they were not refrigerated properly which could cause them to go bad.  Who knows.  The first one I opened that was like that, I actually ate a bunch of the fruit, I’m lucky I didn’t get sick.