My birthday present: the thrill of the obvious.

Since I worked a double-shift on my birthday, it ended up being a little blah, but I did have this event to make up for it:

I was watching Poseidon with a couple friends of mine, and my dad wandered into the room towards the end to watch it. Now, if you haven't seen it, Poseidon is a strictly-by-the-book action movie that references - nay, outright steals - every trick used in disaster movies like Titanic, Armaggeddon, Cast Away, Die Hard, Gone with the Wind, The English Patient, Babe, etc. The dialogue is cookie cutter, it's paced exactly as you would expect, and so on. So when they jump out of the boat at the end of the movie, amazingly, there's a life raft waiting right there for them. They pull themselves in, and I said aloud: "Countdown to rescue - 38, 37, 36..." and then I stopped. My dad, who was standing behind me, quietly finished the countdown in his head.

When he got to "one," the night sky lit up with rescue helicopters.

Man. I am good.

In other news, for my birthday I got Arrested Development: Season Three, which I have not seen any of and is turning out to be every bit as good as I hoped, and will soon get The Office: Season Two, which I have seen most of and I know to be every bit as good as I hoped. Better, even.

I also got a first-edition Oz book and A Man, A Can, A Plan, so that I don't eat just baked beans and toast this time when I move out of the house. So it was a good birthday. But there's still time, everyone. You can still click on that Office link up there and buy me that hat.

What's today? Why, it's your birthday, suh!

I'm celebrating my birthday today by working two overtime shifts in two different portrait studios in our region. I'm hoping that today, at least, I don't get vomited on.

Still, it's my birthday, and a reason for celebration!

At least somebody around here knows how to party.

(By the way, this is the point at which you leave me a lovely birthday comment. Yes, right there on the bottom. Excellent. Nice of you to think of me.)

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It's Here!

As long promised, I have finally done a full-scale update of Ten-Four, Good Buddy. 10-4GB has gone through a lot of changes in the past year, and so I felt it was time for it to finally really show it off to its best advantage. I've learned enough HTML to scrape by, and with a little photoshop and a lot of trial-and-error, the new site is finally on the map.

Here's a quick guide to the new look.

If you're clever, or if you spend some time digging through this summer's archives, you might recognize where the picture in the header comes from. As you might have realized by now, I'm not afraid to use anything more than once. I think the fish is going to become a real theme for the site. I might even have a "Name the Fish" contest.

On your right is the updated toolbar. There are a list of all the 10-4GB films - all of them are now hosted (through vMix) on site. Feel free to take a gander at any you haven't seen before.

"Romans and Countrymen" is the new "Friends" section. If you don't find yourself in that section and would like to, leave me a note.

All the other basic sections are back, in one form or the other, but make sure to check out some of the links on "The Best of YouTube." There's all the classics and a couple new ones, like this one here: Tommy Seebach Band's "Apache."

Keep in mind, this is for real.