ooh my first entry

the forum upgrades are pretty neat. i was a little worried things would lag like crazy but it hasn't been bad for the most part. the fact that i've had about 30 anonymous views creeps me out just a lil' bit, but i'll deal.

....moving on....

i celebrated my birthday this weekend! on april 19, 1919, shoehorn's spaceship ran out of fuel and crash-landed onto this crazy @$$ planet. nearly an exact year before, on the 23rd, a similar series of unfortunate events had befallen his friend. umm...yeah, that's right. so we chose to kill two birds with one stone by getting friends together to go out on the 21st instead. for whatever reason, it was decided that all the guys had to wear ties and dammit, it's been a while since i've worn one of those things. fine, i say. i'll just google various tie tying methods and roll with it. it took me about an hour but i became decent enough with the half-windsor knot. saturday comes around and everybody meets up at the restaurant. turns out that only two of us wore them! i was not impressed. oh well. went out later that night and we all had a great time. i was pretty tired by the end of it all but was able to muster just enough energy for a super nice guy pose.