Happy Birthday, And as my mother says happy personal new year.
I live here in southern California and have been to Phoenix to work on a project.
"I live here in southern California and have been to Phoenix to work on a project."
Speaking of Phoenix and phoenixes, I've been listening to, for almost half an hour now, a Buddhist priest chanting over the newly-virgin ground of a housing construction site one street over from where I sit as I type this.
Apparently it's bad luck here to build anything substantial without having a priest bless the site first. The guy even sounds angry sometimes, like he's telling the spirits of samurai who may have mislaid their guntles that poltergeistery mischief will not be tolerated.
Weird, interesting and ultimately completely irrelevant stuff. Am I in the right place, here?
The dude's still shouting. . . Oh, shoot. I think he heard the gales coming from my open window. It's an ill wind blowing now, I'm telling you.
Thanks, TT!