On soon to be turning fifty:
Those famous words from Arelne Martel in the episode of The Twilight Zone...
"Room for one more...honey"
...as she holds open the door to the morgue. You may also recall her as a confidant to Col. Hogan in Hogen's Heroes, and T'Pring (Spock's Fiance), in Star Trek.
I know, things are not that bad, I plan on being around for much longer. I am stubborn that way.
On Wednesday of this last week it was 115 degrees F. here. That, my friends, was the hottest place in the USA. Death Valley was only 112. Phoenix was only 111. It may be hotter still in the coming days, especially today.Summer is brutal at this time. What if I went back to my origins? What was it like then? I'll be fifty years in this world this Thursday. What about fifty years ago?...
I do not live in Los Angeles, but here is the data from my real first day at birth in this world. Add about 10 degrees for where I live, and it will be close.
Los Angeles Downtown, CA
on Friday, September 6, 1957
Max Temperature
84 °F
Min Temperature
65 °F
--Dan
14 comments:
The hot summer temperatures have arrived.
I remembered that you were a fellow Virgo, knew you had a birthday coming up. Enjoy!! And age is just a number!
Hi Dan - what date in September? I'm another one of those. Glad to hear you're planning on sticking around for quite a while. As for fifty, it's the new .... well, it's still fifty, but who cares? A couple of hundred years ago getting to fifty was amazing. Sadly, there are many places on this earth where it still is.
So ... Dan, there are no rules. YOU are the new fifty! (and I'm not so very far behind you).
Hey Grace and Margiecm:
Thank you, and the day will be the 6th of Sept.
I know I am classified as a Virgo, but I believe not in that stuff.
Fifty IS the new 50, no? Look at Alexander the Great...he had no such luck.
--Dan L.
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Hi Dan
I remember 1957
It was a very normal year in the normal, modern suburbs of Amsterdam, so it can't be all that long ago.
To distract you: I don't believe in astrology either. But then cancerians, like myself, never do ;-)
Very happy 50th birthday on the 6th, my friend.
It's not so bad at all...
;)
Aha...the bunch of ya Dale, Koos, and Atomic Elroy...
THANK YOU so much for your visit here! I am very touched.
Peace to all,
--Dan L.
Hi Dan!
Hope you have a wonderful birthday, filled with hugs and kisses from your wife and children and a cool breeze to tone down that heat!
:)
S
remember the Twilight Zone where earth is getting hotter and hotter because the moon's distance from the earth had been altered, and this young woman is trying to find a way to escape it because pretty soon everyone would be dead of the heat, but it turns out she is in a fever induced nightmare, and the earth is really getting COLDER and everyone is going to freeze to death?
Happy Happy Birthday (one day early ...)
and many, many happy returns to you, Dan!
50 was a little scary, but I've got 10 months of it behind me now. You have the most incredible genes or maybe combination of lifestyle/genes, because you look wonderful. And Young!
Some of the finest people I've ever known are Virgo.
Here's a little bit of fun birthday stuff for you:
September 1957
Your date of conception was on or about 14 December 1956 which was a Friday.
You were born on a Friday
under the astrological sign Virgo.
Your Life path number is 1.
Your Native American Zodiac sign is Bear; your plant is Violets.
Your birth tree is:
Weeping Willow, the Melancholy:
Beautiful but full of melancholy, attractive, very empathic, loves anything beautiful and tasteful, loves to travel, dreamer, restless, capricious, honest, can be influenced but is not easy to live with, demanding, good intuition, suffers in love but finds sometimes an anchoring partner.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DAN AND HIS BIG OL' BLOG BUSTER!
xo Tink
A very happy birthday to you Dan! Incidentally, you share the 6th (today here already) with my middle daughter Emma, who is sixteen today. And almost with me - two days and two years behind you!
Hope your day is wonderful and full of love, laughter and happiness.
Love,
M x
Many happy returns for tomorrow Dan!
So many great people sending to simple me...a birthday greeting.
Thank you all again, Ahvarahn, margiecm, tink, stevie, and all the previous blasts brfore!
I am truly touched, and maybe even loved a bit.
The same to you all, for all of you, my love and peace,
--Dan L.
HAPPY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY!!!!
today!
(oh, and sorry about the heat.)
oh my.
stay cool,
-ginab
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