The sun is the same...

...in the relative way, but you're older...


"Time"

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field, tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
And hear the softly spoken magic spell


Apt words, Messrs. Mason, Waters, Wright, and Gilmour.

So we're looking at almost exactly 15 hours to the thirty-third anniversary of my birth. not the most momentous of occasions, but meaningful to some nonetheless. I suppose it's a time for introspection (Jen? Didn't I already do that a couple weeks ago? Can we count that?) but not being the introspective type, I suppose the meditation would be lost on me anyway...

Something deeply profound would also be suitably grandiose for the occasion, but again, probably not something I can drum up on cue.

No, this birthday is going to be the best one yet, because it's going to be all about what's important in life. Having fun and enjoying one's time on the planet, spending quality time with loved ones of all qualities and quantities, and generally being even lazier than is my norm (but yet being sure to stay above a vegetative state). It also helps that my friends of the day believe in monthlong birthday celebrations, and I'll be partying with many, many sluts tonight, believe you me...It's going to be an amazing day/night/weekend/month/summer/year/etc...

For those curious, last night's date came and went, but more details will have to wait, as I've yet to inform the next of kin and/or concerned parties...and I'd hate for anyone connected to the outcome to hear anything here as opposed to through me personally, so y'all will just have to bear with me on this...

I will say (and be warned, this may be TMI, but hell, it's early, and I'm feeling declarative:) that on a completely date-unrelated note, I've now officially slept with as many women this year as I have my whole life prior to this year. (I think; just based on my off-the-cuff estimated approximations.) Woohoo. Way to whore around, Gene! This will be but the first of many accomplishments made this year, but possibly the most debased one...

Yeah, definitely toeing that didn't-need-to-say-that line in the sand...oh well, chalk it up to the daylight peeking through my windows...time to post it before I read it and change my mind.

More soon, but if not have a fine weekend, wherever y'all are, and whomever y'all are doing!