I woke up this morning to find a couple dozen “happy birthday” notes waiting for me on Facebook. That was a great way to start the day. Even if I didn't like Facebook for any other reason, I would like it as a means of delivering birthday greetings.<\/p>\n
Some friends say they find the barrage of mini birthday greetings on Facebook impersonal and artificial and annoying, and I can see how it could feel that way. But me, I love it. Every couple of hours, I would wander by Facebook again and there would be another couple dozen little notes—some just saying “Happy birthday!”, others a bit more personal. I was pleased by all of them. They made me feel all warm and fuzzy. I think there ended up being something like a hundred of them.<\/p>\n
There were also notes in email, and one on my blog, and one hand-written on paper. And a couple of phone calls. I very much appreciated all of the greetings and good wishes from everyone. Thank you all.<\/p>\n
Oh, and the weather suddenly improved. There's been a lot of rain around here lately, but today it was delightful warm sunshine in a perfect California blue sky. I took a picture of a palm frond against that blue-sky background, and posted it to Facebook with the caption “It's a sky-blue sky” (which is half of a quote from Laurie Anderson).<\/p>\n
And then in the evening there was Indian food, and skimming through Nausicaa<\/cite> to watch the flight scenes on an HDTV, and soaking in a hot tub. And now I'm kind of dazed and sleepy and relaxed and happy.<\/p>\n So I think I'm off to bed. But I wanted to stop by here first, just to thank you all for a lovely day.<\/p>\n I will continue to count the rest of the week as my birthday week. But the pressure's pretty much off the rest of the week; I had about a week's worth of good birthday stuff today.<\/p>\n Oh, one last thing: Happy birthday also to Jessica E, David H, Theo P, and Wendy B! And, why not, to Lady Gaga as well; didn't know until today that it's her birthday too. Hope you all had excellent birthdays too.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I woke up this morning to find a couple dozen “happy birthday” notes waiting for me on Facebook. That was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}