:mattLandia:

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who celebrated my birthday with me. Each email, voicemail, card and gift was awesome and I consider myself to be extremely lucky in the friends department. I can't say I feel any older, but I know I make enough new mistakes with each passing year that I'm building a little bit more wisdom one day at a time. So in the spirit of growing older, let me impart a few lessons I've learned or re-learned this year:

- Metrosexuals are out. Mustachesexuals are in.
- The stress of a fake heart attack will most likely give you heart attack.
- When in India, leave India.
- Lovin' honky tonk don't mean yer a cowboy; jest means yer a honky.
- Living in the Atlanta suburbs basically sucks unless you like All-You-Can-Eat buffets, in which case you are sooo hooked up.
- When dating, if one party is shopping for a house and the other is shopping for a home, it's time for a "talk".
- Getting a tat is easy. Trying to get sleep while it heals will reduce you to tears.

That's it folks, pearls of wisdom free o' charge!