Wow.  This is fun.  I am just perusing the different lessons on W3Schools (thanks reg) and then fiddling with my webpage, and then changing it back till I decide exactly how I want this site to look and what I like.  But I’m quickly picking up PHP, and relearning CSS and the slight difference between XML and HTML.  It is a lot of fun.  I’m also looking through a basic WordPress Design tutorial I found (its pretty basic, but helps me a little).

I feel my slight nerdy side shining through again.  I likes it.  And can’t wait to fully make this site my own.

The new high point of my trips to Buffalo are visits with my friends Sean and Missy and their daughter Ella. She rocks. Being a Funcle is awesome. Just as the highlight of going to Queensbury is seeing my nephew Rider (whom I will post new pictures of soon) Ella is definitely the highlight of Buffalo trips.

The birthday breakdown goes like this:

Angie has won the family text message/happy birthday that occurs actually on my birthday. Sorry mom and dad, pre-birthday happy birthdays don’t count.

Carrie has won the gift giving part, and while the hat is very awesome (I still wear the one she made me a few years ago) my favorite part of it was the paper it was wrapped in.  I am assuming (and I’m sure I may be corrected about this later, that Rider scribbled all over it.  Its on my fridge.

Aunt Ginny was the first card I received (thank you) and Sita (I believe) was the first to say happy birthday on my Facebook page on my birthday.  Pre-birthday wishes wishes on Facebook go to Seri.

I plucked out the gray beard hair I had and photographed it for evidence before shaving.

I also shaved (and put on Carrie’s hat).

I had this weird dream last night.

In my dream I came back from traveling through time.  The time machine however was this elevator on the Effeill Tower.  I show up back there with a bag, and think that its too bad that the others didn’t make it.  Then in the background I see Mim and Reggie.  Reggie’s sister is also there.  They don’t seem to believe that I have traveled in time.

I pull out some of the things I have from traveling through time.  Mostly they are cups.  I have a giant coffee mug (its all glass and has a Charpentier Coat of Arms on it).  I also pull out pint glass.  Then there is the small shot glass (apparently I am a drunk, who is addicted to coffee).  They still don’t believe I have traveled though time.

It was a weird dream.  But interesting enough to wake up for on my birthday.

I had a dream last night that was a little weird.

I was going to bed in my apartment (in the dream), and Mim (my sister) and PJ were here.  We all slept in the living room for some reason falling asleep in the dark room.  Next thing I know there is a knock on my door.  I answer it and there are three movers there.  They come in and start moving the media center around.  My landlady stops by to see what is happening, but just sticks her head in the door and then leaves.

I go back to sleep and the movers finish their work and leave.  When I wake up there is a new flat screen tv in my living room.  I go up to it and pull on the sides and the two sides come off, they were held there magnetically and can be removed for easy moving.  I go into my room to look for the old tv, but find all of the tv’s I have ever owned or watched tv on (at least at my parents’ house while growing up) in my bedroom.  They are all over the place.  Even old black and white tv’s that used be in my father’s back room.  One of them is cut in half for some reason.

I never do find my tv that was replaced.  I also find my closet a mess.  But just give and start playing with the new tv.  Mim and PJ were also gone.

It was a strange dream.  But it was a strange night last night too.

The weird thing is that I can do the stupidest tricks ever and  they work so well on kids.  I don’t quite remember where or when I was taught this “trick” but I showed an 11 year old girl it today, and she was astonished.  She couldn’t figure out how I did it, or why it worked.  I even gave her a dollar bill and let her try for a few minutes and she just could not figure it out.  Made me smile.

Watch as I magically turn the dollar bill upside down.

Dollartrick