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Not much to see here...Move along. In the famous words of "Oingo Boingo" "it's just another day.".

I don't get that excited for my birthday. Not sure why. Ever since I had kids I have seen my birthday as less and less relevant. Perhaps it is because I am comfortable with my life and what I have. Who knows, but needless to say I just don't get that excited.

Yesterday my good friend Scott and I went out to lunch at "Wallaby's Smokehouse" at 131 S State in Lindon, UT. It was good, not as good as I remember, but still good.

Tonight we had Pier 49 Sourdough Pizza which was good and Jen made me a chocolate cream pie, which if Jen made a crust from scratch would beat my Mom's pie (sorry Mom).

Jen asked me a couple day's ago what I wanted for my birthday, and to be honest I couldn't think of anything so I told her not to worry. So it was with great surprise that she got me something very good--a 80-hr TiVo Series 2 Dual Tuner DVR. I had been wanting to get one for a bit but couldn't get myself to pay for the subscription service. But since I didn't buy it, and we got a $180 rebate on the box, we bought a 3 year subscription, thus allowing us to purchase the TiVo subscription at the lowest possible monthly price. In looking at the wiring schematic, the cable signal is split inside the box and the output is via either coax, S-Video, or composite outputs. I set it up to output to my TV on S-Video, and split the video cable to my TV and TiVo, thus allowing me to record two shows simultaneously and watch a third if I so choose.

For being just another day, Jen and the kids made it a good day.