Today is the day
No retrospective, no “Oh, I feel soooo old,” no corny sentiments.
Its my 34th birthday today, and I was greeted with two lovely handmade cards from my kids (my son Kampbell helped out his sisters Kaitlyn and Kyla on both of them), and a number of “goodies” to satisfy my belly – including a bunch of UK treats. My favourite is the McVities chocolate topped digestive biscuits (don’t know why, I just love them…), found at a lovely local shop thanks to my wonderful wife Kathryn…
I certainly don’t feel any older – but perhaps just a bit more blurry. Is it bad that I’ve “lost” my wallet twice in the last ten days, and then found it in really silly places after tearing the house apart?
39 Responses
Comment by J.D. — Jul 08 2005 @ 8:10 am
Been lurking for a while now and figured I’d at least pop my head out and say Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great one.
Comment by Jon Hicks — Jul 08 2005 @ 8:13 am
Happy Birthday you old dragon!
(I’m trying to catch up with you, got another year to go!)
Comment by AmyBeth — Jul 08 2005 @ 8:21 am
Happy day! Enjoy it! And remember, always appreciate (and celebrate) the age you are… cause there’s certainly nothing you can do to change it. :)
Comment by Robert Wellock — Jul 08 2005 @ 9:00 am
So you’re getting senile and forgetful in your old age anyway the secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Have a great day young man and save me some cake.
Comment by Faruk Ateş¸ — Jul 08 2005 @ 9:04 am
Happy birthday, Derek!
Hope you’re having a wonderful day today :-)
Comment by Rob Weychert — Jul 08 2005 @ 9:39 am
Hope you have a great day, Derek!
Comment by Tomas — Jul 08 2005 @ 9:54 am
Happy birthday!!!!!
So now you’re entering the transitional phase where you step on the scale first thing in the morning and count your remaining hairs at night. Rest assured – this will go away. When you are as old as I am you learn to ignore your own graceful degradation.
Comment by Matthew Pennell — Jul 08 2005 @ 10:27 am
Happy Birthday, Derek – have a good one. :)
Comment by Keith — Jul 08 2005 @ 10:30 am
Dragons don’t age! But happy birthday anyway. I turned 34 a couple of weeks ago…don’t really feel old yet. Blurry is a good way to describe it.
Comment by ppk — Jul 08 2005 @ 11:02 am
Happy birthday, Derek.
In exactly one week you can congratulate me.
Comment by Henrik Lied — Jul 08 2005 @ 11:33 am
Happy birthday, Derek! Hope you’ll have a great day!
Comment by Peter J Lambert — Jul 08 2005 @ 11:39 am
Happy birthday Derek. Have a good one.
Is it bad that I've "lost" my wallet twice in the last ten days, and then found it in really silly places after tearing the house apart?
Have you checked the contents? Where do you think your birthday presents came from?
Comment by Andrea — Jul 08 2005 @ 12:43 pm
Happy Birthday!
To make you feel younger, I am 33 and about to be a great-aunt… Enjoy your tasty treats!
Comment by Mike Rundle — Jul 08 2005 @ 12:45 pm
Look at this guy here …… he’s ain’t stocky!
Happy birthday homie, lookin’ forward to hanging out again next year at SXSW.
And just to make you feel really old, you’re now 12 years older than I am. Yeah, that’s right, I’m 22. What now!
Comment by Martin S. — Jul 08 2005 @ 12:49 pm
Yeah, congratulations Derek! Celebration all day long I hope :D
Comment by Malarkey — Jul 08 2005 @ 2:49 pm
Snappy birthday Derek.
(You’re catching me up on the age thing ;) )
Comment by Suzanne Long — Jul 08 2005 @ 5:28 pm
heya. Many happy returns. And those cookies might just be Hobnobs ! yum. When are you next in TO ?
Comment by goodwitch — Jul 08 2005 @ 5:32 pm
virtual shopping for derek’s b-day…hmmmm…chocolate dragons, noooooo….oh i know…..how about this
surprise virtual present?
hbdty,
g
Comment by Gez — Jul 08 2005 @ 5:33 pm
Happy birthday, and many happy returns, Derek.
I’ll be 34 in 7 years time, as soon as I can work out how to make time travel backwards.
Comment by Ethan — Jul 08 2005 @ 6:40 pm
Happy birthday, Derek.
May the coming year bring you fewer Malarkey-kicks in the nadgers.
:)
Comment by Russ Weakley — Jul 09 2005 @ 6:32 am
Happy birthday, Mr Featherstone!
Comment by dotjay — Jul 09 2005 @ 6:15 pm
I may be a little behind with this, but hope you had a happy birthday, Derek!
Comment by Maxine — Jul 09 2005 @ 9:36 pm
Happy (very belated) birthday Derek, sounds like you had a good one. Yeah, I love those chocolate coated McVities as well: they’re kind of a great mixture of sin and virtue.
Comment by Richard Rutter — Jul 11 2005 @ 11:21 am
Happy Birthday mate! Plain or milk?
Comment by Shane Shepherd — Jul 11 2005 @ 2:12 pm
Happy Birthday! I’ve been reading your page for a while, but have never commented. Just thought I’d chime in!
Comment by Squeek — Jul 12 2005 @ 12:44 am
Don’t feel bad, D. I just turned 50, so you’re still way young :)
Happy birthday to ya!
Comment by Kev — Jul 13 2005 @ 3:49 am
Oops! Sorry for the horrible lateness Derek – many happy (belated) returns :o)
Comment by Paul Rosenfeld — Jul 31 2005 @ 12:55 pm
Derek,
I was re-reviewing your awesome post from Aug 2004 about whether the QuickBooks Online Edition blog would work for us. I’m the General Manager and I have to say it’s an unqualified success! There are so many more things we need to do and we are so far from perfect, but we’ve kept at it, struggled, learned a lot, connected much more with our passionate users, spoken to many prospects, converted some, and all in all, it’s been a wonderful new tool to engage with the people who pay our salaries.
And now, I was kind of asked to get blogs up and running for many other parts of Intuit – so Intuit senior management cares alot about this type of thing helping all of us better engage with customers.
Thought you’d like to know.
Regards,
Paul
Comment by Zach — Aug 07 2005 @ 9:37 pm
Happy Birthday Derek!
Don’t worry about the wallet thing, Its nothing to do with age, i’m 19 and i’m always tearing up the house to find my wallet which I end up finding is in another pair of trousers or in another room when I got it out to order something.
Comment by Mike Cherim — Aug 08 2005 @ 4:23 pm
Happy birthday young man. ;-)
Comment by Maxime — Nov 07 2005 @ 9:19 pm
Happy birthday Derek (with 4 months of delay ;))
If I had been able to offer a gift to you, I will have offered one to you a box of chocolates :)
Comment by ChocolateGiftman — Dec 15 2005 @ 6:25 pm
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Comment by Scott — Jul 08 2005 @ 8:01 am
Happy birthday Derek!
Since I missed you when you were in Toronto, the next time you’re here I promise not be to ‘gigging’ or doing anything other than buying you a beer. We’ll get a little Toronto web designer crew together (Pete Flaschner lives a few doors down the street from me) and tear up the town… Ok, hang out and chat ;)