Today I turned 26. I am almost half my parent’s age, and I was born at 1:15 PM on a Cinco de Mayo. Today was a surprisingly good day.

It started off by getting a surprise from sunshine. She apparently hurried while I was out running yesterday (amazing weather) and blew up over a dozen balloons and placed them in my car. She also put my birthday card in there as well. She pulled a fast one on me; I’m impressed she did it without raising any suspicion. She also informed me that I will be receiving a pair of custom Oakley sunglasses (I’ll be getting the polarized black iridium with carbon fiber frame) to make my summer a great one.

I missed the vanpool, but I found my grade in my Database Systems class. I received an 88 of 100 on the final (to match my 80 of 100 on the midterm), which beat the average by 14 points. I was basically gauranteed an A at that point, which I was informed of when I met with my professor. We discussed the material for the qualification exam and he is omitting the material I understood the least!

Unfortunately, on the way to the campus, I had to break up a fight. You’re probably thinking, “who would I catch fighting?” As I waited at a stop light near campus, I saw one guy beating the holy snot out of a smaller guy. When I say beating the tar out of him, I mean the smaller guy had been hit so much and so hard he couldn’t keep his balance and actually fell into traffic. I pulled over and yelled at the guy doing the thrashing to stop and it became clear he had a serious case of ‘roid rage. Even though he was trying to talk to me, he was yelling. The smaller guy’s face had litterally been beaten to a pulp. If another guy and myself hadn’t stopped it, there would have and may still be, a death because of this. The smaller guy climbed out of what we thought was his car and into the car next to it and drove off while we were calling 911. The cops never showed and neither guy had stuck around. I hate to think the smaller guy died of such a bad head injury.

My family made sure to call me just after sunshine and I enjoyed some killer home-made Mexican food. We stayed in and enjoyed some House on TV.

Lastly, I just found out that Nine Inch Nails has released a new album. To make things even sweeter, when you register, you can receive the FLAC copy completely free of charge! What other musicians do that?! I have finished downloading the FLAC (not the MP3) version as I type this.

Happy birthday to all of you out there who had a birthday, and congratulations Mexico on the sweet victory over the French.