Remember, Remeber the 23rd of September

And the 1st and the 9th too.

September is birthday month for the Benner family. My dad's was on the first, my sister's is on the 9th and mine is on the 23rd.

It's funny, I have always had a very cut and dry look at age. Those who are older than me are OLD.

But now, I am the same age (or a few years older) than the folks I used to regard as OLD. Something that seems to roll around in the back of my head about this time of year (at least since turning 24) is that my Dad was 24 years old when I was born. I couldn't imagine having a kid when I was 24.

And when I turned 25 I realized that I had hit the same age as Russ, a former co-worker. At the time I started working down in Tejas, I was still 19. So 25 seemed like a lifetime away. The years went by quickly and then I found myself the same age as Russ. (Not like that was a bad thing, just sort of a milestone I guess.)

Technically I have already been down here for 8 years. I moved down to Tejas like the last week of December '97, along with good chunk of the greater Lansing area as well. I started work for my former company, Simplified on like Januray 2nd. Meaning that my anniversary date was very easy to remember, January 1st.

Well, in regards to feeling your age, I can't stay up as late as I want to anymore and still wake up bright-eyed in the morning (still doesn't stop me from trying). I went bowling yesterday for the first time in at least 3 months. My high score was 130. No turkeys, just a double out of 4 games. It felt good to throw the ball down the lane and hear that satisfying crash of the pins.

However, this morning I feel stiff and sore. In part because I don't really exercise regularly and didn't bother stretching really before bowling. But it made me feel even older when I got out of bed this morning.

Of course, anyone who reads this who is older than me, will tell me to shut up and wait until I'm their age. Which is appropriate since that is what usually comes out of my mouth when talking to those younger than myself.

So I'm shutting up about how old I feel.

I will try to do a better post tonight, something more worth while. I had a few ideas earlier, but I should have written them down.

They say the.... the... memory, yeah the memory is the first thing to go.

Laterz.