happy_birthday_e_o_i raze i hope you're having a great time in england right now, and i hope you're having the best day today, plucking ripe fruit from the heartiest syntax trees and feeling happy and loved. sending you hugs from a little less than four thousand miles away. 220620 ... tender_square happiest of birthday’s to you, e_o_i! wishing you a wonderful day and year ahead, friend. hope you’re living it up in england; can’t wait to read more about your adventures in those unique and character-driven narratives that only you can deliver. lots of love from the mitten. 220620 ... nr happy birthday, e_o_i! (imagine that without the r pronounced/with an attempt at a british accent.) hope you celebrated well and are having a jolly old time in jolly old england. 220620 ... e_o_i Thanks everyone!! Some of my keyboard keys are only working intermittently, so I haven't been able to write much. (And thanks! Basically I had a great trip, but technology kept failing me.) 220622 ... raze this time i get to say, "i hope you're having a great time in germany right now, and i hope your day is full of all the best things." or, in german: ich hoffe, du hast den schönsten tag. wie ein weiser mensch einmal sagte, bedeutet die unausweichliche mondalität des germanischen vorstoßes, dass man nie alleine eis essen muss. 230620 ... e_o_i The last part escapes me... Something about not eating ice cream alone? :) But yes, thank you!! I had a great day. A little bittersweet, because it's the last full day in Vellmar/Kassel/Germany as a whole, at least for now - tomorrow I leave early for the airport. Patricia was sweet and baked me a cake. She, TK, and I (Arild was away) had a good chunk of it for breakfast. And I blew out candles atop wooden blocks in the shape of a 3 and a 5. I keep using the word sweet, literally and metaphorically, but it's worth saying again to raze and everyone: you too are sweet, in the best way, and I hope you and blather have many more birthdays!! 230620 ... e_o_i Google_Translate says: "I hope you have the best day. As a wise man once said, the inescapable mondality of the Germanic advance means that you never have to eat ice cream alone." ...shame on Google Translate for not getting "ineluctable modality" right! (Also I'm a heretic and didn't celebrate Bloomsday this year, but I do mean to get to Ireland one of these days. Onward!) 230620 ... kerry happiest of birthdays to you, e_o_i! glad you had cake for breakfast. that's the way to do it. 230620 ... tender_square happy birthday to you, e_o_i! 230620 ... nr herzlichen glückwunsch zum geburtstag, e_o_i! hope you've had a wonderful day. 230620 ... nr happy birthday, e_o_i! i hope you have a great day celebrating. i am toasting you with my black tea (clinking the mug with your turmeric tea) from afar. 240620 ... raze i'd like to add to that celebratory toast by raising (razing?) my bottle of water. i hope you have the best day, full of adventures that are as daring or low-key as you'd like them to be. 240620 ... Soma hip, hip, hoorae_o_i! 240620 ... e_o_i Thanks everyone! I return belated toasts and well-wishes; I wish you awesomeness and awe-soma-ness. And I'm sorry for seeing this late, but I didn't check blather last Thursday - it was only today I thought, "Oh, one person might have said happy birthday" and I was right x 3, though tardy. 240626 what's it to you? who go blather from