To the 11.1%... thanks

I'll start by saying Happy Anniversay Mom and Dad.

Next, I lost a Facebook (FB) friend yesterday. Not sure who left but my count went from 360 to 359. That is a shitty birthday present. Unless of course that person was a "fringe FB friend" anyway - just coined and officially abbreviated "fFf" going forward. I will use it several times below, so please prep yourself.

Maybe I should copy and paste the current 359 FB friends to see who else I lose down the road? Maybe it was someone that was jealous of all the FB birthday wishes I got yesterday plus the one from Deane on Friday. Regardless, I got 40 well-wishing notes yesterday. So 40/359=11.1%...yes Mason I counted yours despite the obnoxiousness.

I wonder how many belated shout outs I'll get? I predict 11. Only four of which will include the words "sorry" and two of those will be from fFf anyway. One other fFf will be lated, but they will not say sorry. 6 of 10 will have some sort of "hope you had a good day" theme. Those are just guesses. I just hope I don't continue the precipitous drop in friend count that started yesterday.

Anyway, why do we "hope you have a great day" on your birthday. Shouldn't we want people to have good days every day? From now on, I am going to pick eight FB friends (fFfs included) and just wish them a happy day randomly. Since I have almost one friend for each day of the year, there is a 2.2% chance that the note will be on your birthday anyway. But that will be unintentional. I want you have a good day regardless.

And what's all the fuss about birthdays? And since it only happens once a year, should we not say "Happy Birth Year?" Why not celebrate birth hours instead? Too much to remember? I guess it'd be tough to squeeze all those "Just calling to say..." phone calls into an hour. Plus, if we only celebrated birth hours, I might have gotten 15 or so birthhour wishes and like 25-33 belated ones. Or maybe it's the challenge of the double "h" phenomenon in the word birthhour. I dunno, but I think we should look at it a totally different way.

SO MARK YOUR CALENDAR...
Seriously, open up your PDA / Phone / Outlook calendar / Post It Note / whatever and scroll down to:
August 20th, 2013 That's 8/20/13 or 20.8.13 for my European friends.
Do it! Insert the below subject:
"The Tef's 15,000th day, day party"

That day, if I counted the Leap Years accurately, will be my 15,000th day alive. Now that's a cool way to celebrate birth. Five digits, a comma and a small th.

As I have four years to plan it, this will likely be a big party. It will be at our new house in Richmond that will be purchased with coffee and donut money. There will be a tent and or tents. Maybe I'll do ten tents just for the alliteration. If you are reading this, you are invited. Bring anyone you'd like.

P.S. I apologize in advance to anyone whose birthday is August 20th. I just want that day in 2013. You can have the rest of the years. I will not be inclined to celebrate my 15,365th day.
P.P.S The party will not be BYOB but you can bring an appy if you'd like.

In conclusion....HAVE A GOOD DAY Y'ALL. Especially the eight of you that I am about to randomly "wall" on FB.