4681

Happy birthday, man.

4682

I’m literally half your age.

Feel old.

Edit: Happy Birthday!

4683

If I make it another year, I’ll try that in January 2011.

Pretty scary, for a nice, round number.

4684

Punk kids, all of you!

Whenever I feel old (turning halfway to 90 this year, bleaughh!), I just think of Jeff Green. Perspective is a wonderful thing.

4685

Hey, I’m older than you are, Denny, but I’m still younger than Jeff Green. Phew!

4686

Just posting to join the “not quite as old as Jeff Green” club. Strangely enough, the only birthday that really rattled me, age-wise, was my 26th. I think I had my mid-life crisis really early.

4687

I’m hitting 40 in exactly 2 weeks and it’s weird because I still feel like I’m in my twenties. Mentally, I mean. Physically, I’m definitely approaching 40. Ow.

4688

Welcome to the club! Sorry I wasn’t around to wish you Happy Birthday on your birthday, but happy belated. Sweet.

Hey, I have an idea for an awesome post-birthday-week gift! A movie club bump! Hee-hee. Yeah, I know I’m a jerk.

Peace out, Talisker. Good on ya.

-xtien

4689

Today I gave evidence in a GBH case as a witness for the prosecution. Crown Court, so a jury and everything.

Slightly bizarre - lots of dealing with people who never seemed quite sure that things were happening as they should be, and about 6 hours wait before I got called in.

Prosecution counsel questioned me first - I’d never spoken to him before, which I wasn’t expecting. The judge was female and younger than I expected (early 40s perhaps), and the defence counsel was a woman as well.

After about 3-4 minutes of questions, defence counsel interrupted to ask the judge “may I make a note?”. Judge’s instant response was “Well, get on with it then!”. It would appear that the defence’s legal arguments had pissed the judge off, and the defence’s tone was pretty waspish the entire time.

Predictably enough the defence counsel tried some fairly bizarre arguments to derail my statement, but she put her foot in it with some of the more out-there theories, including one moment where my disbelief caused a few of the jury to snigger. Not sure that was entirely helpful but it cheered me up!

Ultimately after all the boredom and nervousness, giving evidence was not something to be afraid of. I quite enjoyed it, especially as answering the defence’s questions became a mental exercise in avoiding the traps and not saying anything other than the truth as I saw it.

Now I need to persuade work to help me claim for the time…

4690

I turned 40 last fall. It does seem weird, especially since most of my current co-workers are like half that age. It makes thinking about the attractive ones a bit weird. ;-)

The good thing is that most people I know think I’m younger then my age. I did, however, have an older woman I work with guess I was like 45, which was a disappointment.

4691

My family is going to be on 20/20 this Friday (March 12). I’ve posted before about our struggles with childhood mental illness in two of our daughters, but this story will also include a couple other families in our area. While media coverage always makes me a little nervous, since we always get a certain amount of unhelpful comments, we have had so many positive contacts from previous outreach stories that I’m looking forward to this wider exposure for the subject.

Here’s the (first?) promo clip, showing one of my oldest daughter’s breakdowns: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/brenna-locked-10047189?&clipId=10047189&playlistId=10047189

The whole episode should eventually be posted on the 20/20 website: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/

4692

Oh, geezus Supertanker. I had no idea. That’s really heartbreaking, man. I’m so sorry.

4693

I turned 40 last fall. It does seem weird, especially since most of my current co-workers are like half that age.

I have this same situation. Feels weird sometimes. I know this is a young man’s industry but damn…

4694

Oh my God. Your poor daughter, I cried when watching that. It has to be like when I try and tell people what life is like with my depression. You simply cannot know unless you have lived with it. We cannot know what your daughter is going through, but I could hear the fear in her voice. She showed amazing maturity in wanting to protect her dogs. I am so sorry and I will be adding your family to our prayer list in my men’s Bible study. I wish you all the success with this terrible situation!

4695

first thought i had was how awesomely you dealt with that situation…

God bless, Supertanker – you and your family.

4696

I sent a ticket to the IT department at work to get them to cart THE LAST CRT IN THE BUILDING OFF.

Of course, it’s not mine, or anyone in my department’s, it just offended me.

4697

You and your wife are incredible. There are so many people who wouldn’t take something like this seriously. Brenna is a very lucky girl indeed to have such amazing parents. My heart goes out to the both of you, and especially to her.

4698

You sir, are a true Saint. As someone who had to code for a year on an old 17 inch CRT at my last job this post resonates good sir.

4699

Wimps. I remember coding on a 13" CRT.

4700

How many years ago? My CRT incident was last year.