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Thursday, May 10, 2007
9:09:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment

Whoa, Look at That --


 -- I'm 38 today.

How did that happen?

Oh yeah: I avoided not breathing for all this time. That's the trick of it, you know. Just keep breathing. The rest of it takes care of itself.

And I'm in the airport in Richmond, Va, waiting for the flight that will take me home after three weeks of being away from home and family. As you might imagine, I'm beyond happy about that. It was a great book tour and I had a blast, but now I'm ready to be home.

As my birthday indulgence, and because today is the first day I'll be seeing my family in a while and I want to focus on them, I'm going to postpone the Weekend Assignment and the Monday Photo Shoot results until tomorrow. This will give those of you who haven't caught up with this week's Monday Photo Shoot an extra day to get those pictures in. Get to it!

In the meantime, I hope you all have a great day on my birthday. I know I will because I'll my family. That's a pretty good gift.


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  • #27 Comment from lurkynat 
    5/19/07 1:43 AM Permalink
    Dear John,
    Opps! Just found out!
    Happy Belated Birthday!
    hugs,
    natalie
  • #26 Comment from bgilmore725 
    5/12/07 10:52 PM Permalink
    I just found out from your mom!!! Happy Birthday... even if it's a couple of days late. Glad you made it home safely to be with your little girl and your wife, and the pets. Life is good!!! Bea

    http://journals.aol.com/bgilmore725/Wanderer/
  • #25 Comment from monponsett 
    5/12/07 3:31 PM Permalink
    38? Dammmmmmmmmmmmmn, Grampa.

    The Mona Lisa is smiling at a joke that John Scalzi told her.
  • #24 Comment from brainwhispers 
    5/11/07 7:14 AM Permalink
    Happy birthday, for yesterday.

    I'll be 38 one day.

    I think i feel much older already. My knees are in their 60's for sure!
    http://journals.aol.co.uk/brainwhispers/Wordsjustfallout/
  • #23 Comment from lilysparadise 
    5/11/07 1:22 AM Permalink
    Wishing you nothing but all the best of Birthdays, John. My Mom-in-law shares the honour with you, but I won't tell you her age. She still thinks she's only 39, though.
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