I turned 42 on December 27, 2007.
If upon turning 33, you have your "Jesus Birthday," (so named because of Christ's age at the time of The Crucifiction) when turning 42 do you celebrate your "Meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything," birthday?
Yeah, okay--so it's a stretch.
These last two holidays I've had a riding companion to down as far as
Portland. Amy had to be back for a doctor's appointment today, so we wound up driving back on my birthday. I would have liked to stay in Oregon longer, but as I've been renting a car to travel on holidays, it was wiser, all told, to come back when we did.
But while nearing the north end of Tacoma we had a moment I found to be most poetic. The ticker board above the Interstate began flashing warnings about lane closures ahead due to road debris. Mind you, they never tell you precisely WHAT is blocking the roadway. Amy flicked on the radio out of curiosity. We turned in just in time to hear the announcer say, "In my twenty years of radio broadcasting, I have never encountered anything like this prior to this year, and this is the second incident in as many months..." What she was referring to was the detritus spilled from an overfilled truck in route to an animal rendering plant.
...and when we reached the heaping helpings of offal awfulness, the helpful civil servants working for the WSDOT Hazardous Materials crew were NOT routing drivers around the piles of inerds, brains, and marrow, but directly THROUGH IT!! I started laughing hysterically, but poor Amy, being a vegetarian of typically fragile disposition, began to wretch.
I hesitate to say "Only in Washington," because that shit is just as likely to happen in Wisconsin...
Wisconsin. Home of Killer Lard Balls. No shit. Pools of rancid lard were found seeping up from the soil for months following a fire which burned a Madison cheese factory to the ground. Neighborhood dogs were discovered dead from asphyxiation, the turgid lard balls lodged in their throats.
Sure and we BELONG at the top of the food chain.
So. My birthday? It wasn't so offal
