Happy Birthday!
Posted: November 10, 2010 | Author: Doug 陀愚 | Filed under: General | 9 Comments »
I am 0×21 years old today!1
“My dear Bagginses and Boffins,and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses, and Proudfoots!…Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday, I am eleventy-one today!”
(J.R.R. Tolkein’s, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring)
Taking the day off, but will have some good stuff for Friday. Thanks!
P.S. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
P.P.S. I keep forgetting to mention this, but I am going to visit Japan again at the end of the year for my daughter’s 4th birthday, and to celebrate Japanese New Year with my wife’s family. I’ll be there from Dec. 28th to Jan 7th. If you are in the Tokyo/Kanagawa area, I’d love to hear from you. I hope to visit some friends there in early January at the very least. 
1 Machines might think I am 100001 instead though.
Hello, this blog is about my life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile. Any useful information I can pass along will hopefully make the 
Hi, I’m moving to Japan (Northern Tokyo/Southern Saitama) in March, so although I’ll miss you this time – let’s meet up on future visits! All the best, Marcus
Happy Birthday Doug! Eat some cake for me!
Great quote
Happy 100001 Birthday!
Happy Bday ^_^お誕生日おめでとう！！thank you so much for writing so many interesting things here…I always read you! have a great day and staying in Japan for Xmas!
Happy birthday Doug! Or as we say in Chinese/Taiwanese, 生日快樂 !
Happy Birthday! お誕生日おめでとう! 日本食でお祝いかな？
Hello everyone, and thank you! I was so happy to hear from you all.
As for today, I spent the day working mostly, but my wife made a nice cake, and I got a couple of nice shirts too. It ended well.
Thanks again!
Oh, and how terrible of me, shame on me, I totally forgot t0 add………
….Happy Birthday! (Glad it went well).
No worries, Marcus.