Well, today I reached the milestone of 32 - at around 5am this morning, if memory serves me. Quite a nice number all in all - 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2. I figure that if I'm lucky I've got a few x^y (where y >1) birthdays left: 36, 49, 64; if I'm really lucky 81. 100, 121, 125 and 128 are probably going to be a stretch.
Went for a celebratory haircut this morning, and what better way to start the day than with the following, back-to-back on the radio whilst being shorn: Amy Stewart's Knock on Wood, Kylie's Locomotion and Kelly Marie's I Feel Like I'm In Love. I couldn't help but walk out of the shop smiling to myself (and the outside world).
My Mum has been in town for the last few days, so have been entertaining her while she's here. (She may beg to differ.) On Saturday night we went to The Harrison, a swish restaurant on the junction of Harrison Street and Greenwich Street. If you read the hype, it has received some rave reviews. In my opinion, the food was good, not great, but the restaurant itself was very nice. The waiter was way too effusive, describing each of the dishes using overly long adjectives. I like to get a feel for a menu from the waiter, but it felt like we'd experienced each dish being cooked (and each wine being aged) before ordering.
Other than that, we've hopefully shown my Mum the New York experience. If you listed the things that we've 'done', it would be quite a short list, but I think that wandering the streets and taking in New York life can be much more fun than queuing for 2 hours to go up the Empire State Building, or going to yet another Natural History museum.
We went out to Arturo's with Andy, Sarah, Iloire and Haven the other night, and I was surprised to find someone (Iloire) who shared my love of punctuation, particularly given the derision with which it has been received among my co-workers. We were both enamoured of the semi-colon, a rarely used artefact that always brings a smile to my face when I come across it. It's nice to know that I'm not alone. It reminded me of an article I read some time ago on Joel on Software about potential confusion with punctuation.
Thanks to my wife for a lovely birthday present, btw.
