I had a wonderful Birthday/Labor Day Weekend! On Friday, Rob and I drove to Baltimore. Rob kept telling me it was going to rain but I insisted we continue. “Ernesto Slermesto! The weather is going to be fine! You can’t believe weathercasters! Everything is a hurricane!” I used Priceline.com to get us a 4 star hotel (Renaissance Harborfront Hotel) for a very cheap price! Hooray Priceline! We got to the hotel and the rain started to fall. Instead of walking around the Inner Harbor we decided to tour the Aquarium. We stopped at an Irish pub and ordered Natty Bo. The bartender said, “We don’t carry Natty Bo” Rob looked horrified and he whispered, “If you don’t got Natty Bo, then your bar could use some fixin'”

The aquarium was virtually empty. I suppose all the smart tourists stayed home. Upon walking into the aquarium, Rob stuck his hand into a fish tank and petted a trout. This was my first time at the aquarium yet I felt no compulsion to touch the fish. We spent an awful lot of time watching stingrays. Rob made numerous Steve Irwin jokes which I now find chillingly prophetic. Looking at the octopus, the Aquarium guide told me that Octopuses are VERY intelligent. Rob agreed and said that for just a few prawn they’ll do your taxes and basic trigonometry. We left the aquarium right when the rain really picked up. We held my golf umbrella straight out in front of us. We couldn’t see and walked right in front of a car. This probably would have been a bad thing except the car was a taxi and we got in and instructed the cab driver to take us to John Steven’s Restaurant in Fell’s Point. We ate a ton of bread and a pound of shrimp smothered in Old Bay Seasoning. Luckily they had Natty Bo which made Rob very, very happy. It was hard getting a cab back to the Inner Harbor but as fate would have it, we bumped into the same cab driver!
We were a bit late getting to the Ram’s Head Live. There was a relatively long line waiting for tickets. Just before it was our turn to buy tickets, a man approached Rob and offered us two tickets for a discounted price! We bought the scalped tickets! With he money we saved, we bought more Natty Bo!

The opening act was a trio called Langhorne Slim. They weren’t too bad. We had a great spot in front of the stage but Rob said he would prefer to sit because his back hurts if he stands too long. We went to the second floor and found some seats front and center. Looking out over the audience, I noticed there was a large amount of shining bald heads. The Violent Femmes came out and they sang their hits and some obscure stuff. They had two drummers, one of which played what looked like the little refrigerator I had in college. I felt bad that he had yet to graduate to a full-scale drum kit. Other musicians came out and joined The Femmes on some songs. One guy played an instrument that was apparently constructed using Tinkertoys and a dryer vent hose. He had a great time playing it but I really couldn’t determine what sound it actually emitted. Suffice to say, the concert was great!

The concert let out just as the rain slowed a little bit. We were able to get back to the hotel without the umbrella turning inside out.

The next morning we had breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant. I ordered SWEET POTATO PANCAKES WITH PECANS AND RAISINS AND REAL MAPLE SYRUP! We discussed staying in Baltimore but the weather was just miserable. We were both tired and it seemed best just to pack up and head back home. The traffic wasn’t overly horrendous and we got back home around 3:00.

2 September 1974

Your date of conception was on or about 10 December 1973 which was a Monday.

You were born on a Monday
under the astrological sign Virgo.
Your Life path number is 5.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 9.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 8.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 6, 11 & 22.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2442292.5.
The golden number for 1974 is 18.
The epact number for 1974 is 6.
The year 1974 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/23/1974 and ending 2/10/1975.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Tiger.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Bear; your plant is Violets.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Hathys, the third month of the season of Poret (Emergence – Fertile soil).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 15 Elul 5734.

The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 14 April 1974.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 14 April 1974.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 27 February 1974.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 2 June 1974.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 9 June 1974.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 17 September 1974.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Sunday, 7 April 1974.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 26 February 1974.

As of 9/2/2006 5:21:09 PM EDT
You are 32 years old.
You are 384 months old.
You are 1,669 weeks old.
You are 11,688 days old.
You are 280,529 hours old.
You are 16,831,761 minutes old.
You are 1,009,905,669 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Erin Hershey (1976) Salma Hayek (1968) Lennox Lewis (1965)
Keanu Reeves (1964) Jimmy Connors (1952) Mark Harmon (1951)
Christa McAuliffe (1948)

Top songs of 1974
The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand
Seasons In the Sun by Terry Jacks
The Streak by Ray Stevens
Having My Baby by Paul Anka
Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
Billy, Don’t Be a Hero by Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods
Annie’s Song by John Denver
The Loco-Motion by Grand Funk
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) by MFSB with the Three Degrees I Can Help by Billy Swan

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 4.57455968688845 years old. (You’re still chasing cats!)

There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 33 candles.

Those 33 candles produce 33 BTUs,
or 8,316 calories of heat (that’s only 8.3160 food Calories!) .
You can boil 3.77 US ounces of water with that many candles.

In 1974 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.
In 1974 the US population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile.
In 1974 in the US there were approximately 2,158,802 marriages (10.6%) and 708,000 divorces (3.5%)
In 1974 in the US there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

In 1974 the population of Australia was approximately 13,831,978.
In 1974 there were approximately 245,177 births in Australia.
In 1974 in Australia there were approximately 110,673 marriages and 17,688 divorces.
In 1974 in Australia there were approximately 115,833 deaths.

Your birthstone is Sapphire

The Mystical properties of Sapphire

Though not meant to replace traditional medical treatment, Sapphire is used for clear thinking.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Agate, Moonstone, Lapis Lazuli

Your birth tree is

Pine Tree, the Particularity

Loves agreeable company, very robust, knows how to make life comfortable, very active, natural, good companion, but seldom friendly, falls easily in love but its passion burns out quickly, gives up easily, many disappointments till it finds its ideal, trustworthy, practical.

There are 114 days till Christmas 2006!
There are 127 days till Orthodox Christmas!

The moon’s phase on the day you were
born was waning gibbous.