Tuesday, November 21  

Hit A Bump On The Road!

Hit A Bump On The Road!

Oh my goodness. Today I turn 40. That's a bump on the road.

Man, I can't believe it. Seems like just yesterday I was turning 18.

Had a nice day on Saturday - tennis with 7 mates where we had a doubles championship - I lost. Then we all went to the horse races - I lost again. Then back to my place where we had a dinner for 16 with all the food and wine from Tasmania - the place I grew up.


Sunday was out for breakfast, another tennis game (and another loss!), then home for lunch and a few beers. Then that night there was a surprise cocktail party with another 35 people.

Yesterday I spent recovering and falling asleep here at work at my desk until I figured out that I may as well fall asleep at home.

And today - on my actual birthday - I thought I'd potter along here at work for a few hours.

So there it is. I'm now hitting middle age. At least now I can't die young I guess!

Cheers

Brendon

P.S: And thanks to Jenny who commented in this post - as a man hits 40 his fragile male ego needs a boost ..... and the beautiful, wonderful and just plain nice Jenny (I have no idea who you are Jenny!) said "Happy birthday you stud you!"

P.P.S: I received an email from a mate this morning:

"Good morning Brendon

I believe you have something of mine!

Regards

Father Time"

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You know Brendon, one of the smartest things you can do when you hit the big 40 is to surround yourself with extremely good looking and youthful people and judging by the photo you are off to a good start!

From Leanne and Steve

# posted by  Anonymous : 12:52 PM  

G'day Brendon. Regular reader of your Blog; good stuff. Turned forty a few years ago myself...can be a traumatic time for the Alpha Male Warrior... fortunately, I've pulled through relatively unscathed, although some would disagree. You may find the following post mildy amusing.. keep up the great work.

http://www.craigharper.com.au/posts/11/gettingolder.htm

Craig Harper.

# posted by  Craig Harper : 1:42 PM  

Thanks Guys

Yes Leanne, that was indeed the basis of my strategy with the photo. Most people say "I didn't know your daughter's name was Leanne."

That's how young you're looking.

Great post Craig - my dad is 76 and runs to Kings Beach at Caloundra (7 km), then he swims 2 km and runs home.

His 5 sons didn't believe him until we were all gathered in Caloundra a few years ago and decided to have a race. We set up our own course of running, swimming and cycling.

Dad asked if he could be in the race - we laughed and said something along the lines of "Sure old man. We need someone to be last."

Then we all got our butts kicked by this 'old man' in his late 60's - he thrashed us by about 6 minutes over an hour long race.

I have to confess I'll be flying down to Tassie in the next week or 2 to swim across the Derwent River (about 2 km) and then run up the top of Mt Wellington (about 23 km) - because I did it when I was 21 and then when I turned 30.

My huge male ego tells me I have to see if I can do it again!

God I'm so pathetic!

Cheers

The Birthday Boy

# posted by  Brendon : 1:55 PM  

Happy birthday from me too, Brendon, and good luck with your "selftest". So the half marathon and the triathlon were just the warm ups for your birthday ritual, weren't they?... ;-)

# posted by  Gabriel : 7:02 PM  

From the other side of the world...

Buon Compleanno, Brendon!

Sincerely,
Luca

# posted by  Luca : 8:03 PM  

Congrats on the big four zero mate!

# posted by  Anthony : 8:30 PM  

Brendon,

Wow! What are the odds that the day I check out your site it's YOUR birthday! Freaky coincidence...today's also MY birthday! So, Happy Birthday to us!

Hopefully I'll be able to treat myself to a birthday trip down to 'stralia some day.

- Patty

...and if I were single I'd be finding a way down there sooner...Jenny's dead on!

# posted by  Patty : 5:08 AM  

Oops! Just noticed you're not single, either. Sorry, Mrs. Sinclair!

- Patty

# posted by  Patty : 5:12 AM  

Thanks for the best wishes.

And happy birthday to you too Patty. Apparently only the very best nicest people have a birthday on Nov 21.

Cheers

Brendon

# posted by  Brendon : 7:40 AM  

Happy birthday again handsome. Spend some more time with Steve in the above photo, he could use some stud-training lessons from you!

# posted by  Jenny : 1:32 PM  

Happy Birthday Brendon.

Welcome to the club.

Keep up the training!

# posted by  John Hopkins : 9:53 PM  

Happy belated Birthday Brendon
Cheers
Bruno (Perth)

# posted by  Bruno : 12:01 PM  

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