The other day was my birthday...once again. God, it seems like they come every year!...Oh wait, they do! Siiiigh! I suppose their is no escaping them..hehehe. So what is my age this time? Well, A HAGARD 28!! GOD!! I'M GETTING SO MUCH GRAY HAIR, MY NOSE HAIRS ARE STICKING OUT, MY EAR HAIRS ARE HANGING OVER AND I'M FORGETTING THINGS RIGHT AFTER I THOUGHT ABOUT THEM! Good Lord! Okay, okay, myabe I'm slightly exaggerating, but I swear that's pretty darn close. But if there's one thing to look forward to on each passing b-day, it would be that I'm also getting another year wiser. I think that's about the only positive thing about birthdays and aging. So what did I get this time around? Welp, (oh, "welp" was my dad's way of saying, "well"), not much this time. Not that I care anyhow.....and that's the truth too. But as the norm, I got a slew of greeting cards, several cakes, a few good pats on the back, a few old-man jokes, kisses..(from grandmas), and the likes. Oh, and I also got a nice rickety, old, used coffee table. Hahaha, ya! My grandma's best friend called me up and told me her greetings and said, "Oh, I got a present for you. I'll bring it by". So she get's here and tosses out this beat up looking glass coffee table....of which was hers for a hundred years or so...well, maybe not quite a hundred years. I think I had an eyebrow raised with an "eeeeew" look on my face. But of course, I said, "Oh, Connie, how nice. You shouldn't have"....(and I think I really meant that). But what the hell, she looked so charming and gay about giving it to me as a gift that I couldn't help but accept it with open arms. Now here I am, staring at the thing in my living room as I'm typing this....looking at it's dirty brass colored frame that's missing a few screws....and that's slightly leaning to one side. I just gotta be careful walking near it cause I swear it wobbles from the slight breeze of me passing by. Hmmm, I suppose I could just tighten up the screws and go down to the local hardware store for the missing ones.

Anyhow, enough of that. It's a cool Wednesday evening... just got out of the shower... feeling clean and relaxed.... fed the belly, quenched the thirst, what else could a man ask for. I'm sure alot more, but at this point, I'm quite content. Actually, if there's one thing that I could ask for, it would be to pick up a few more freelancing clients. For some reason, my freelancing has died down to nearly nothing. It was only a few months ago that I was so bogged down with projects that I had to sublet some of them. Now all of a sudden, nothing! Eh, I'm not so concerned though since I do have my regular full time job. And honestly, I don't miss all that "busting-my-ass-day-in-day-out" stuff. I'm sure it will happen again though so I better enjoy my free time to myself while it's here.

Well, here we are again, the month of October. It seems like it was only a week ago that I had written an article for last October. My oh my oh my, how time sure flies. Ya, the 10th month already. Next thing you know, I'm gonna wake up and it'll be Christmas just like that. God, I don't even want to think about Christmas! Oh, in other news, my damn Raiders finally won a game!! I couldn't believe it! So now their standings is 1 and 3..meaning, 1 win, 3 losses. Ya, not a good way to start off a new Football season. But as I said previously, it's just that, a start of a new season.

Okay folks, I'm calling it quits tonight. I'm running out of things to blabber about. And now that I'm 28, I'm finding my mind not as sharp as it use to be, which means I'm finding less "Random Thoughts". God, at this rate, by the time I hit my mid 30s, I might as well be brain dead. But you know what folks, by that time, I'm sure I'll have experienced more wonders and passions in life........and I'll be sure to tell all about them. Good night people of the world! The Dreamer.....has stepped off the stage...............