I couldn't agree more..

Now you're being sarcastically facetious. That or you're an arrogant
fool. What makes you think that you are somehow special because you
choose to remember ridiculous things? Your cat can remember. At least,
mine does. But they don't seem to give a rat'z azz about things that
are totally irrelevant. They so much more prefer to live in the moment.
Just like you should.

You care about time, do you... Then think about this... In 6. 5 billion
years, the earth will be totally destroyed by the sun when it goes red
giant. And there's no stopping it. Nothing of this world will remain.
Nothing to attest to our struggles, to our hopes and to all of our puny
little lives (including Kami). It will all be rendered meaningless
within the bat of an eye. All this sh.t, and in end the end, it won't
matter at all.
Now, as far as time goes, I think that's a whole helluva lot more
relevant and a might bit less ridiculous that whooping and shouting
about a fragile short-lived creature's life-span!

More fun facts for those of simple mind to ponder...
Our sun is only one of over 5 billion 'suns' in this galaxy alone. It
revolves around the center of the milky way at a speed of over 67,000
mph. In turn, the milky way galaxy itself revolves around the center of
the ever-expanding universe at a speed of over 265,000 mph.
Thanks to the Hubble space telescope, we have learned that what were
once thought to be stars are actually thousands of clusters of other
galaxies, so f.cking far away that it is totally incomprehensible. If
life were some how be miraculously discovered on our sun's closest
neighboring star system, it would take us over 4 years just to get
there to say 'hi'. That is, if we could travel at the speed of light
(286,000 miles per second). Right now, the best we can do is 12.

And another thing... In one hundred and eighty years +/-, nobody you
will have known in your life-span will be alive, so it'll be just like
you never lived to begin with! Doesn't that make 18 years seem like
such a totally short time? The live oak tree in my back yard will have
grown a little thru it all, though.

I hope I have been able to put your kat's birthday (and the inane
practice of celebrating it) into a little better perspective 4 U,
Brandy. It proves that I'm 'special somehow' over people who waste
their times with utter useless trivialities... Like YOU.  Only God
didn't make me like this... I did.

                                             IBen
<52 yrs, 2 months., 3 wks., 4 days, 14 hrs, 2 mints. and 59 secs. old,
since you seem to care>
                                           Getiner