I was born on this day 31 years ago at 8:49 a.m. It has been a good day. Angela came up to work for lunch with the German Chocolate cake and we had that after eating lunch at a Cuban place off of Chamblee-Tucker Road. The day at work was quiet, but passed fairly quickly because of what there was to do. The weather cooled off as I headed home, the storm clouds coming close to breaking loose but never getting there. I listened to the iPod as I drove home through the mess of Atlanta traffic. Huey Lewis and the News can feel dated these days, but I like them and it fit my generally upbeat mood. I got home to the love of my life and had some fun Birthday Sex (TM) after winding down a little bit. We then settled down to a wonderful dinner by Angela and watched a Disney made for TV movie.

Of course, I didn’t mention the gunfire at 5 o’clock this morning from a couple blocks away. Mainly because it wasn’t on this block (at least) and all I could do is call 911 on whatever chrackheads were doing it and try to get back to bed. Not the way I expected to start out the day!

Anyway, my general feeling these days is, despite all my faults, I’m pretty happy with life these days. I have a lot of things (and people) to be grateful for even when I feel much room for improvement in myself. I have been around long enough to have a clue that even if everything that I considered wanting in my life were changed, shit would still happen. There would still be frustrations and goals just out of reach. As somebody else put it, our ‘IN’ box will never be empty, even when we die! So, my desire in this 31st year of my life is to reach for the goals I feel important. To spend more of my energy on reaching those goals and less on beating myself up over what I have yet to do. After all, I’ve wasted a LOT of time in my life with that and all I did was make myself miserable and unable to enjoy what I DID have at the time.