It's my birthday

... and I'll blog if I want to, blog if I want to, blog if I want to,
You would blog too, if it happened to you.

Or maybe not.

Anyway, it is my birthday.

Because my birthday is on the 24th, I always looked forward to being 24. I thought it would be significant in some way to be 24 on the 24th. When it came to it, I don't think it did feel very significant. Two decades of expectation, and then nothing special. Ah well.

I'm 48 today. As I was walking along, yesterday, pondering, as you do, when you walk along, on the day before your birthday, it occurred to me that 48 is twice 24, and that therefore this birthday is doubly special.

I have to make the most of these significant birthdays. The next one will be 72, and then 96, and then that will probably be it for significant birthdays of this kind.

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Math(s) can be fun too

Day Eight of 'The Daily Post'.

Here's a little light relief for those of you struggling with your children's maths homework (you know who you are).

1) First find a calculator
2) Key in the first 3 digits of your phone number (forget the area code)

Ah, it's based on a US phone number, so for those of you reading this in the UK, or - who knows? - some far-flung exotic location, find a seven digit number, and for convenience, separate it into a group of 3 and 4 digits (if your birthday was May 13th 1965, you could use 135 1965 for example).

3) Multipy by 80
4) Add 1
5) Multiply by 250
6) Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
7) Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again
8) Subtract 250
9) Divide by 2.

Ta daa!

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