As far back as I can remember, I don't recall anyone orchestrating a surprise birthday party for me. Heck, I can't even remember the last time I actually went out on my birthday. Sure, I'd go out for other people's birthday, but I always stayed under the radar when it came to my own. Well, that all changed about a week ago. A number of my friends secretly devised a master plan and succeeded in pulling a fast one on me despite my belief that I knew about it the whole time. Normally, I would be posting this as a story in my "yet to be developed" story section of the site, but until then, this blog will have to suffice.

Beverly Hills has Dr. 90210, FX has Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, ePartment54 has me. While I'm not quite the surgeon those folks are, I do occasionally blow the dust off my handy toolkit and perform emergency computer surgery on some of my own systems, typically out of necessity, not pleasure. You've probably already heard stories of the bad luck I've had in the past with hardware, even brand new stuff. As you might guess, my network has once again gone bonkers and subsequently decided to go on a one-way trip to hardware heaven.