An absolutely gorgeous, sunny, Sunday morning in the Ozarks. My birthday actually, 44 years old-not old for a tree as they say. They also say that you are only as old as you feel. I feel….about 42, I guess.
As I was perusing through the newly written blog selections, that come to my attention, in the morning, courtesy of the old Google reader, I found that my friend, Mr. President, at Textual Relations, had bestowed me with this honor.
Thanks Pres, it’s always nice to be recognized for Excellence. By always, I mean that it’s never happened to me before and I’m giddy; just giddy!.
I have been advised that, as the receiver of this honor, I must comply with strict blogging statutes-the “Share the Love” and the “Promote Your Fellow Blogger” statutes that appear prominently in the code of conduct.
To this end, it is my honor to bestow Excellence on these ten fellow bloggers. And, it is now their duty to do the same.
ControlRoom – Mixin’ it with Dr. J
April 6th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I always knew you were EXCELLENT, dude. Happy Birthday to you, Jack. I love ya!
April 6th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Holy Black Hole, Batman… you’ve finally hit middle age. I can’t think of any nicer guy for it to happen to, no?
And about that Excellent thing, does that come with an MSDS sheet? I am surprised you nominate MooPig since that time, remember you said “[I ]probably deserved it..” when that guy who had just got out of County Prison jumped out of his car and punched me in the mouth, while I was walking the dog, and it felt like a mosquito bite, so I said to this guy: “Is that all you’ve got?” And he kinda ran away… he thought I had been hanging around his girlfriend while he was locked up… weren’t true, their word against mine in a small town?
When then I said “Your girlfriend is one of my workers at the NOA factory,” [where you tuned your b-strings...] but I told him he better “Back off, or my dog would chew him up,” as the world’s least loyal best friend turned to me and gave me the look: “you’re on your own here…” but then later they found this guy dead behind his trailer home, apparently suicide with a shotgun to his own self… and his girlfriend shed not a tear… just gathered her gypsy self up and moved on to somewhere else… in Marthasville just below the Church of Christ — the sing-ingest church that side of the Missouri — with its predominantly Germanic congregation, and its Irish minister and Cuban wife, whose kids were all above average, in the Mensa ranges, and his son Aubry, and three girls?
If’n you have the forgiveness to pass forward from il Presidente, the slanted E award for a Pig blogging up the digestive system of a bull calf… God bless you. We accept this in the name of MOINJK! And all that is middle age.
PatrickisnoAprilFool’s last blog post..All Labors be Advised
April 6th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Happy B’day Jack! If I’d known it was your birthday, I’d have emailed you a bowl of grits! God Bless!
April 7th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Happy birthday, Jack! I am sorry I wasn’t here yesterday, I have seen your post today, on Sunday I am a bit slower, but better later than never, right? Happy birthday and may you receive anything you wish for ,a lot of musical accomplishments and a lot of good health!
Congratulations for your “excellence” and thanks for the link love ;-)
Ovidiu – GuitarFlame.com’s last blog post..Hard times come easy
April 7th, 2008 at 1:47 am
WOW! I always knew had a weird sort of friendship thing for two guys who’ve never met. Now I think I know why. My birthday is the day after yours! Yes, it’s true, you can now add having a birthday on the same week as Mr President to your list of honours.
Mr President’s last blog post..E For Excellent
April 7th, 2008 at 5:11 am
So, Happy birthday, Mr President! Damn,am I Marilyn Monroe or what?!!
May you have a long and happy…presidential mandate!(Is it correct mandate?)
Ovidiu – GuitarFlame.com’s last blog post..I have been rated E for excellence
April 7th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Somebody in here is just whistling Dixie.
PatrickisnoAprilFool’s last blog post..All Labors be Advised
April 7th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Happy birthday, twangbrother.
Gary’s last blog post..Double Excellence!
April 7th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Happy birthday and thanks for the nod!!!!
I’m not a major blog reader (yet), so I’d be hard pressed to nominate 10 feeds, let alone 10 that are a) excellent and b) not included in your list :-)
I nominate your writings 5 times then IG, Frank et al can share the silver.
Having said that, I can see that following the above links around there are some good candidates out there to be added to my daily read!
Kenski’s last blog post..Stalled…
April 7th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Sincere thanks to all of you guys. I ended up having a pretty remarkable birthday. Hearing from all of you is a big part of that.
Thanks again
Jack
April 8th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Perspective is a knife edge, and iron sharpens iron. Happy, well-deserved, hard fought 40-something, old man… you know we all here’n loves ya!
April 13th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Another Aries Man, Just what the Dr ordered!
Dr!! Check Please! i’ll take this one to GO!!
Happy Belated Birthday i hope it was all that and then some ya sexy beast u!! :-D