…well not really. My birthday was June 6th (D-Day if you are a history buff). However, I have several friends who have a birthday today. One friend is president of his own company and makes my wife and me laugh about as much as anyone we know. We were at his house to bring in Y2K admist rations and supplies he is still using. He was a hoot that night interviewing a group of friends ala Jay Leno until 4:00 am (we were waiting for something BIG to happen - we were all disappointed!)

Another friend whose birthday is today now who works for Starbucks. He was a high school buddy at Spruce Creek High School who got me into a lot of trouble. He made me do all kinds of things I NEVER would have done without his influence (like walking our biology cadavers to our Math Analysis class, trying to sneak into Disney World on Valentines weekend and Grad night - we were caught both times and really got into a heep of trouble, and mooning an activities bus returning to school after a field trip. Our girlfriends were on that bus along with my very loud and obnoxious English teacher). He too created a lot of humor but most it wasn’t very funny then and is less funny now.

My best friend’s birthday is today too. He LOVED to laugh and would almost gag he would laugh so hard (particularly He was a great audience but also a funnyWe had way too short of a life as he died ten years ago this year of melanoma. I call his parents and widow every year on this date. I try to tell them a story of something he did that made me laugh. Fortunately there were a lot of those times.

Some people don’t like having birthdays. They think getting older is a bad thing. I say laugh and remember something fun from your childhood or make someone else laugh on your birthday. What do you have to lose?