Race

A pretty long time ago, I swore off announcing people's birthdays on here. If I remember rightly, the last birthday I announced was my cousin Kaeleigh's first.

Just now, I got the news that Kaeleigh's gone and got herself a sister.

Congratulations to Danielle Feline^[1] and Shane Maxwell^[1] (nice middle names, guys!).

As I say, I've sworn off birthday announcements. But I feel justified in this one, for at least three reasons:

(i) it's my blog, and I can do what I damn well please;
(ii) it's not a birthday, in that bullshit once-a-year sense, but a Birth Day, in that arguably less-bullshit once-a-lifetime sense. A wholly different creature; and
(iii) I can steal an oft-used line from a mate^[2]:

Now you can race 'em!



[1] I would have put surnames, but being the caring, involved kind of guy I am, I dunno if she took his when they wed, or if they have one of those modern marriages where the husband and wife don't love each other (points to the first person - not Marcia or Cam - to pick that reference)

[2] Thanks, Zac