Clear and Breezy, Mid-30s (3:57:49 PM) 
I am 35 years old today. I switch back and forth between incredulity that I'm this old, and a sort of placid acceptance of cresting the hill which slides inevitably down to... well, 40 and beyond, I guess. All in all things have turned out pretty well so far, although I'm not leading exactly the life I'd expected of my mid-30s back when I was 20. Getting older is just weird.
I've spent a lot of time talking and hanging out with high school friends in the past week, which has been great. Lots of synchronicities - my friend Dan (who lives in North Carolina) is contracting up in Boston now for a while, so we went out for dinner and a movie on Thursday. While we were at the movie, another of our HS friends called his cellphone - a friend who's wife (and high-school sweetheart) I'd just seen for dinner last week in California. And then the next night I got a call from our friend Jeff to tell me he'd made partner at his law firm in Cleveland! Jeff and I had a terrific conversation on the phone yesterday, which reminded me what a shame it was that we don't talk more often. And returning to the birthday theme, Jeff's birthday is Tuesday (he was always frustrated at being two days younger than I was when we were kids - now the tables have turned and he's all excited about it :)).
I'm working on writing some example code for our upcoming book (the 2nd edition of Building Web Services with Java) right now, and in a little while I'm going to go out to the blues jam at Johnny D's, play a set or two, and then head to dinner with my family at a new restaurant in the South End called the Union Bar and Grille, which is supposed to be just faboo - it's by the same team that did Aquitaine and Aquitaine Bis.
Fittingly, the weather report says tonight's temperature will be "in the mid-30s". Me too.
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