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I would like to propose Thomas Jefferson's birthday as a new national holiday for the United States. Who's with me?

Pressies!

We had the family birthday celebration last night because Rosa's back with Daddy tonight until Sunday. Imo's pizza, chocolate cake, and pressies. Tonight we're going out for Thai food, at my request. Also I think we'll stop by the city house to plant the first present I noticed: a dwarf Winesap apple tree that I spotted as soon as I got home because it was on the front porch with a bow on it.

From Rosa I got a fuzzy poster of fairies. She has given everyone fuzzy posters for their birthday for about a year now; I think she's hoping to get to color them herself or at least together with the recipient. This one has imprinted designs that show up when you color it.

From Chris and Tammie I got a white iPod Nano, iPod "gloves" to protect it, some Godiva truffles, T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats as illustrated by Edward Gorey, and a forthcoming copy of "The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets" read by such notables as Al Pacino and Patrick Stewart.

Now I've really gotta figure out how to rip my audio cassettes. Or more accurately, I know how, I just gotta do it.