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Monday was my 29th birthday.  I may have mentioned this last year, but I’m definitely getting outside the realm of plausible deniability when it comes to my status as an adult.  Actually, I think this year’s birthday was less traumatic than last year because I’ve become more comfortable with being an adult and I’ve started to appreciate some of the perks.  Maybe it was also made better by a heartfelt birthday wish I got from a friend:

Ok, actually, that’s just the greeting I got when I started playing Brain Age for the Nintendo DS – a birthday gift from my wife.  It didn’t help me feel any better about my birthday when it turned out that my “brain age” was calculated to be 66, based on my wretched performance on some of the tests.  My only solace is that when I last played Wii Sports, my “fitness age” was in the low 20’s.  If my body is so much fitter than my brain, maybe being a graduate student isn’t a great occupation for me…

As the final present of my birthday, I was glad to see the Yankees lose to the Cleveland Indians, ending the Yankees’ hopes of advancing in the postseason.  I guess I just have a real problem with fans and organizations that have such a pervasive sense of entitlement.  Of course, they probably don’t see it so much as a sense of entitlement, but rather as a sense of getting their money’s worth.  Either way, it’s satisfying to see Goliath fall.  Nice job, Cleveland.