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I turned 30 today. If I were in Europe just a few centuries ago, my life would now be drawing to a close. If I lived in Mozambique right now, it’d be the same story. Luckily for me, there’s a decent chance that I will continue to live a little bit longer. I’m thankful for this, just as I am thankful for many other things that are too numerous to list here.
I suppose the people of the future will probably look back on us with the same sort of pity we’ve reserved for our short-lived ancestors. They’ll wonder how we ever managed to live a decent life in just 80 years, or enjoy ourselves without the benefit of fully immersable virtual-reality machines. Perhaps they’ll even find a way to mesh brains and machines, so that all our memories can be stored and saved indefinitely, or transferred to better bodies if need be. They’ll wonder how we could have standed being mortal, and how awful that must have been.
If any people from the future are reading these words, please know that it was pretty awful sometimes. And that I hate you something fierce.
I’ll try not to think about it, though. I’ll try to spend the next few days on a holiday/spree/bender/celebration of the lizard. If this site isn’t updated for a few days, you’ll know things are going well.
UPDATE: Things went well. Really well. I’ve returned from a nice trip to the coast, where I re-learned how wonderful this country is. I’m now recovering and will return to this site soon.
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Vse najboljse for the big 3-0! Have a great celebration/spree/bender/holiday!
Congratulations on making it this far. I always said you’d never see 25. Since I can’t be the first to say Vse Najboljše, I’ll have to content myself with with wishing you Lepo bruhanje!
Happy birthday!
And it’s also my friend’s birthday today.
Happy birthday!
Well who would have though! Congratulations!!!!! May your beard grow long and strong! :))))But for the rest of us - let’s see what www.astro.com has to say about Michael M.:<–snip–> This astrological combination indicates heightened inspirational and spiritual tendencies. His mind and feelings are refined, and he seemy to be a mild, benevolent individual. Because of his acute perceptions and reliable judgment, he has a capacity for assessing situations in their true light. Among friends and associates he is able to make his sensitive, intangible traits more substantial. his fluidity of character takes on definite form in society, and perhaps for this reason he shuns solitude. He will, therefore, seek marriage, partnerships, and associations. His most conscious aim throughout life is always to find and express sympathy and human understanding. He dreams of universal communion inspired by a poetical nature. The artistic sensibility - a receptivity to all things in the cosmos - is deep within his nature. The key to a more harmonious existence lies in becoming more determined and concentrating his efforts more closely. <–endsnip–>Well, there you go! :))
Happy Birthday, Mike!
Happy Birthday! S Dnem Narodzhennya! S Dnyom Rozhdeniya! Have a fun one - and be very, very happy always!
Happy Birthday, Michael.Lucky you, life starts at 30, as my Sensei told me on my 30th.
Happy birthday Michael. Prepare a Feast of Friends and let it roll, baby, roll!
A middle-age crisis?
Congratulations and happy birthday to you, Michael. I should have known you were a Pisces.
To the sake of sounding dull: happy birthday, Mike!!
Hey, I don’t know how did I happen on your blog:) But I find it interesting to read and what I wanted to say here is HAPPY BIRTHDAY:)! I am from Tallinn, Estonnia, have many friends in Slovenia.
Happy Birthday from me, too.I’m way over thirty, and I am here to tell you– it gets <i>better</i>. At least for a nice long while. Why the lizard?
Happy Birthday! Enjoy your next trip round the sun
Sretan Rodendan, Michael.You’re a bit too wise, quite a bit too funny, and definitely too sanguine to be just 30. Must be the water. ’cuz it certainly can’t be the beer…"…and I’m seeing the road that I’ve travelledA raod paved with heartaches & tearsAnd I’m seeing a past that I’ve wastedWhile watching the bubbles in my beer"-Bob Wills, Cindy Walker & Tommy Duncan
Happy Birthday! You should read the Richard K. Morgan series that begins with Altered Carbon. In the future consciousness is digitized in a "cortical stack" and clone and synthetic bodies are called "sleeves". I don’t usually read sci-fi and I really enjoyed these books. Cheers!
Happy birthday, young friend! Twice younger than me!!!
Happy birthday Mikeal ! that your wits stay as fresh as when you were 20!aleX
Now I realise: Pisces, Pisces everywhere, children conceived in a warm June: you, NewYorker, my sister, Jod…
Hey Mike.You’ve made it so far. And life has granted you a beautiful Slovenian wife and 2 great little Slovenians.What else could you wish for from Life ? I believe we will enjoy walking around Pekrska gorca a long time from now, when you’ll turn 60 and I’ll be 65 (oh God Am I really THAT much older than you
and we’ll be remembering the days 30 years ago when we were crazy enough to talk on FM everyday. Those days will long be gone then. Our kids will tease us with the photos of our laptops and mobiles while they will be walking around with new gadgets so advanced that you and I are not capable of dreaming about it tonight. But hey. Don’t be afraid of the future. The future is now. So continue to enjoy Life on the sunny side of the Alps. And you know somehow our little Carniola changed the day when you took your first breathe here. Congrats!
Sretan vam rodjendan! stotina godine!*raises glass of medovaca \_/ * Ziveli!
oh left out something important, my ancestors were notoriously long lived unless someone 1. killed them in battle 2. they broke the law and got hung or beheaded or hung drawn and quartered for it.Those averages are not all THAT accurate!
oh i left out, 2. Burned at the Stake and 4. Sent into Exile
welcome to the club!
oh wow! that means you share your birthday with stephen gately, of boyzone fame!anyways, have a good thirtieth. i’ll be joining you in a year or so. sigh…
I spent a weekend offline, hence the delay: Happy Birthday and: it’s half as bad to be that ancient, let an old woman tell you…
Life begins at XXX!
Boldog születésnapot… … and yes do expect quite a few changes in these years! Do watch out your stars ;)… while you enjoy the next 30 years!Cheers,
Vse najboljše Michael!
Oppppss. I’m a bit late, but nevertheless… HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope life (and Slovenia!) treat you kindly.
Tuesday, and no new post. Looks like things are going really well :-P…
Feliz cumpleaños, titán!Anyway, if I were you I’d be running, as Logan use to do.Vse najboljše and all that, and not in the funny-weird-but-respectful Slovenian way, but in the loud-hugging-and-kissing Argentinian one.