I'm officially in the next age group...

Today's my birthday. I'm 45 years old and I'm smarter, wiser and in better shape than I was when I was 25 years old.

The smarter and wiser I could have predicted, but I'd never have thought I'd be fitter at 45 years old than 25 years old. I must say, it's a great feeling.

Not a lot to report today. I spent the entire day learning, except for a run before we all went out for dinner.

My learning started off with the Canon 7 D, I'm not sure if the settings are correct. We're not getting the same quality of video that we've seen on the You Tube sample videos.

Last night Reid was filming his movie and Alyssa was his actresses. I looked at the cuts this morning and thought it could be better and I knew he would never read the instructions and thought I better. Then I could provide the technical support. After a few hours, I still couldn't figure it out. Tomorrow I'll have to call the camera store.

Then the next learning stop was Word Press, again. I'm making headway. I followed up with Word Press by trying to teaching myself about Mail Chimp. It seems that all I'm doing is learning, or at least trying. Which is making me irritable. All I'm doing is reading from google and watching You Tube videos in the hope they'll help me figure everything out.

At 5 pm, I still hadn't trained and Alice was looking forward to going to dinner. I couldn't pass up a run, I needed it to clear my head. At one point I was fully dressed, heart rate monitor on and ALMOST didn't go. I thought, "it's my birthday, I've trained 12 days straight, your entitled to take a break, why not do it tomorrow".

Instead, I went anyways. I know that after 2-minutes of leaving the house, I'll get in the groove. It's those first steps that are the toughest. I was right. It didn't take long and I was into it. I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying the no-pressure training. It feels so damn enjoyable.

I finished the run, had a shower and we were off to Turtle Jacks for my birthday dinner. I was craving a nice burger, although I did pass up the fries and went for salad. Although, they did have a pitcher of beer special for $11 and I went for that.

When I asked the waitress how many beers came in the pitcher she said about 2.5. It turns out that 6 come in a pitcher. It was a great dinner, I love hanging out with Alice and the kids. We have so much fun and Reid constantly makes me laugh. I'm blessed.

For my birthday, the family gave me some beer related stuff, coasters and a cool glass. Oh, and a pair of fake diamond earrings that I helped pick out earlier this week.

Long run - 53:33 / 9.84 km / 5:25 per km avg