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27 February 2006

It's my birthday. I'm 29 today. Nearly three decades of life and I'm not sure if I've accomplished anything of lasting worth in my 20s. Well, I have one more year before I hit 30 to do something about that, I guess.

post by: killdevil at: 00:45 | 19 comments

Well, you're not dead. That's something. You have a good 30 more years to make something of your life. Take your time.

posted by puke & cry 27 February | 01:17

Happy birthday!

I recall my 29th birthday specifically because it was the first one where I could feel I had accomplished something. (Also because I had no party, since nobody knew it was my birthday.) You've got plenty of time.

posted by nomis 27 February | 01:22

only 30 more? I plan to be rockin the casbah long after 60.

Happy Birthday!

posted by mosch 27 February | 01:22

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posted by taz 27 February | 01:59

Wow kd! You got the elusive bunny goatse! You rule!

posted by arse_hat 27 February | 02:38

Happy Birthday! I wish I was 29 again!

posted by essexjan 27 February | 05:41

By the time I'd turned 29, I'd only maimed a few minor demons in an unfortunate funny-car accident. You really should be proud of yourself, killdevil!

Happy Birthday!

posted by danostuporstar 27 February | 08:36

Happy MF'in' Birthday!

posted by Quartermass 27 February | 09:15

Happy birthday! : )

posted by sisterhavana 27 February | 09:33

Happy birthday killdevil! (Tangent: I live less than 2 hours from Kill Devil Hills, NC.)

My own 29th is less than a month away.

posted by mike9322 27 February | 09:39

Happy birthday, killdevil, you whippersnapper. Fear not the 30s. So far, my 30s have been a very happy and productive time for me.

posted by jrossi4r 27 February | 09:44

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posted by plep 27 February | 09:58

Happy birthday!

posted by Frisbee Girl 27 February | 11:29

By the time you are 39, you will realize that lasting worth is not all it's cracked up to be, and then you can relax and have some fun.

posted by JanetLand 27 February | 11:42

Happy Birthday! (don't worry til next year!)

posted by amberglow 27 February | 12:41

The 30s are a man's best years. You have the hard-earned wisdom you learned in your 20s, AND still have most of your hair. Good times.

posted by LarryC 27 February | 14:43

Or more seriously, your post reminded me of Meriwether Lewis' oft-quoted ruminations on his 30th birthday:

"This day I completed my thirty first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this Sublunary world. I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation. I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now soarly feel the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended. but since they are past and cannot be recalled, I dash from me the gloomy thought, and resolved in future, to redouble my exertions and at least endeavour to promote those two primary objects of human existence, by giving them the aid of that portion of talents which nature and fortune have bestowed on me: or in future, to live for mankind, as I have heretofore lived for myself."

posted by LarryC 27 February | 14:49

Hoppy Burfday, killdevil! And what JanetLand said. I've found my thirties the bestest yet.

posted by deborah 27 February | 15:23

I remember my thirties. Kind of.

posted by dg 27 February | 22:00

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