{"id":205,"date":"2006-01-17T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/a-mildly-amusing-birthday-story-and-making-paper\/"},"modified":"2006-01-17T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T12:58:00","slug":"a-mildly-amusing-birthday-story-and-making-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/a-mildly-amusing-birthday-story-and-making-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"a mildly amusing birthday story – and making paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m at a time in my life where birthday’s don’t really phase me much – hell, I’ve already got the gray hair and the balding spot on the back of my head which is not a topic for discussion. So, birthdays are not a big deal – except for one thing.<\/p>\n

I think that birthday’s are a time for family and friends – not a bunch of loud strangers bellowing out a brutalized version of happy (insert resturant name here) birthday with poorly organized hand clapping. <\/p>\n

So, if you’re out to dinner with me at any time around my birthday – whatever you do, don’t have all the servers come over and sing for me. I’m not going to like it.<\/p>\n

With this in mind – and a warning to those having dinner with me – we went out to dinner for my birthday to Macaroni Grill. The food is always good and the bread is… oh, the bread is wonderful. I polished off 1.5 loaves all by myself. <\/p>\n

Our server came around toward the end of the meal – once we had totally gorged ourselves – chided my lightly since I didn’t finish my asparagas (though I acutally enjoy it and would have eaten all of them first except that they tasted like charcoal and lighter fluid. I would have complained, but I just wanted to leave and go home and digest).<\/p>\n

She also asked if we wanted dessert – I shook my head no and so did my friend who shall remain nameless (the fate of the guilty). Friend also then added – clearly without thinking – “No, we’ve got cake…” – they pointed at me – “waiting at hom…”<\/p>\n

They servers eyes – already wide enough to suggest insanity under normal circumstances – widened even further. My guilty friend – realizing the terrible and potentially dangerous mistake they had made – grabbed the server and dragged her down into the booth. They spent the next few minutes doing everything possible to convince the server not to sing – even begging her to forget that she had heard anything.<\/p>\n

For my part – I was resigned to my vocal fate. The food – except for the asparagas – was good and I was stuffed. And there was cake to be considered later. So, I wasn’t going to unleash any of my dark and terrible wrath.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a compromise was reached. The server would bring cake, with a lit candle, but she swore that no one would be singing. I wasn’t entirely convinced, but I had already decided it was out of our hands. She left and came back withe promised chocolate cake, one lit candle, and no singing.<\/p>\n

She was tipped well.<\/p>\n

Later,we discoved that we had been charged $.01 for the cake – and that it didn’t taste very good.<\/p>\n

Still, overall – a good birthday dinner. And now it’s time to get…<\/p>\n

Wait, nearly forgot. I got a papermaking kit for christmas and finally got ahold of a blender – so, yesterday I made about 10 sheets of paper with the kit. Worked pretty well – only had one go “bad”. I’ll make more for sure and I’m considering taking some pictures – but I’m pretty sure it’ll just look like a piece of paper. Which, by itself, is not really that cool.<\/p>\n

Okay, now I’m done… back to work…<\/p>\n

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