Lee said:
"Oh, happy birthday, Friday Melbourne time, Eolake."
Right! Friday 9 March is my birthday (44). And also the ten-year anniversary of DOMAI. Zippidy-doo-dah. :)
When I put up the first simple and small page ten years ago, I did not consider that the site might in 2007 be ten gigabytes and be known by millions. Actually I did not even consider it might last ten years, or even just be a commercial site. What fun.
Update March 10: Thank you to everybody. Yesterday was a hail storm of well-wishes for me and for Domai, by web, email, and phone. Then I had an excellent dinner at Laurie Jeffery's and friends'. He is justifiably proud of his cooking. Actually he is the best amateur cook I know. They put up 44 candles, and we all chatted long into the... evening. After all I'm middle-aged now, and I can't party til 1 AM like I did a couple of times when I was young.
Happy birthday and congratulations! :)
ReplyDeleteEolake you seriously rock. Happy Birthday. Hope you are spending it the way you want doing what you love to do.
ReplyDeleteJim & Suzy
Thanks guys. By excellent coincidence I am invited over tomorrow for dinner at Laurie and Vicky's house, they are visited by Philippe Baud and family.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ljp.co.uk
http://philippebaud.com
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rhum!
ReplyDeleteThis calls for celebrating, aarrh!
Oh, Eolake, you dirty old man, you...
Here's to seeing you get older, dirtier, and manlier! A lot more.
But there's no hurry. :-)
I remember Mette quite well (no, not from 10 years ago! from posts on the blog). No wonder your site took off great, with such a first model. Lovely, natural, confident... just perfect. And a good friend, too! :-)))
Lucky you.
See you all in 2017.
Okay, Cap'n Sparrow, I'm all done, we can sail. 9-)
(Eye patch smiley)
Happy Birthday Eolake, a true Piscean. Creative. Sensitive. Aware of unseen depths, resourceful. Unbeholden to none but the enchanted Muse of Truth and Beauty. Thanks for sharing your self with the world.
ReplyDeleteLaurie
Hey, congratulations man! And congratulations to Domai too! I hope you will continue to share your wisdom and 'dirtyness' for many years to come.
ReplyDelete(Apparently you are much older than I am. I won't be 44 until May!)
A Taurean bull?
ReplyDeleteYou guys are babies next to me. I just turned 46.
Laurie
Laurie,
ReplyDelete...and the world is your oyster? ;-)
I guess that makes you the pearl! :-D
Pisces are cool. Two of my close friends are Pisces and I tend to get along with them easily.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Eolake. Congratulations on your success with DOMAI, but congratulations are also in order for the number of lives you've changed for the better because of DOMAI.
Steve - another Taurean bull
Happy Birthday Maestro. I'm 46 myself. Hey Laurie, there are pups among us lol.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your day Captain Eolake.
A heartily beep beep beep from Monsieur Gen(eration 50plus).
ReplyDeleteYoungster you!
Beep!
And thanks for contributing to changing the world a bit.
Monsieur Beep said...
ReplyDelete"And thanks for contributing to changing the world a bit."
Or, more correctly, a few kilobytes at a time. ;-)
But only a few at a time, really, in my dial-up connection internet world. Bit by bit. Every pixel. I sit in front of my screen (uhh uuhh uh ****scratching armpit), waiting for beauty to build up. Hint hint - domai.
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend, with no sandstorms.
Have a good weekend, with no sandstorms.
ReplyDeleteimpossible for them in the oil-gaurded war of babylon. sigh.
hey, btw, hannah person, did you notice your picture is off center?
Thanks for sharing your self with the world.
ReplyDeleteyourself.
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Hi anonymous,
ReplyDeleteno, I meant "your self".
Laurie
p.s. Are you being a curmudgeon again? Did you wish Mr. Stobblehouse a Happy Birthday? It's what this thread was all about. :)
p.s. I'm actually getting to like you.
Happy Birthday, Eolake! :-)
ReplyDeleteEolake said: "After all I'm middle-aged now, and I can't party til 1 AM like I did a couple of times when I was young."
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the "...somethingPlus" Club, Eolake.
I'll never understand why all the celebrating has to be done outside daylight hours.
Could it be one more of those human features, which make us so outstandingly unique, just like carrying belching white sticks around in our mouths, for instance.
We certainly are funny creatures.
I'm only 36, and already I feel I'm no more a "youth". One terribly significant clue : I've started buying toys for my juvenile relatives, and not just for myself. There's no turning the clock back now! (Not that I'd want to.)
ReplyDeleteAnd I have much less endurance than a three year-old for wild, silly jump-around fun. This is a sure sign I'm becoming one of the "grown-up" old folks. In a child's book, at least.
Well, the important thing is, they won't see me as a grumpy old fart any time soon. I can be childish with the best. Even babies who can't talk the talk or walk the walk yet. :-)))
Hey! Who just said: "Say hello to Alzheimer's"? I heard that, you whippersnapper scallywags! I'm coming to get you. (As soon as I find my walking cane, that is.)