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No post tonight… Wifey's Birthday!

December 20, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Celestial SmileYeah my beautiful Half-Celestial wife Alexandra turns ## today (Yeah like I’d say that on the Web and expect to live).

The whole family is going to the restaurant tonight and I don’t think that going online to blog after the kids are in bed is going to make me a popular guy in the house. So in the interest of Male Survival and just plain decency, I shan’t post any RPG stuff tonight…

(It would really help my case if you could drop a happy birthday wish and reassure her that this Overlord buisness isin’t true!)

I will have a mini-post up tomorrow early in the afternoon right before I start the last preps for the game… Because I also happen to be the Daycare’s Santa tomorrow morning… Can you believe that I’ve been doing this for 5 years and my children never recognized me? I must have a wicked bonus in Disguise!

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  1. Graham|ve4grm says

    December 20, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    Happy Birthday!

    Don’t worry, we’ll keep Phil in check.

    Between PM and I, we enabled him to get this far. (Well, technologically, at least.) We can knock him back down a notch if we need to.

  2. Yan says

    December 20, 2007 at 3:39 pm

    Bonne fête Alexandra!

  3. greywulf says

    December 20, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    Happy birthday!

  4. ScottM says

    December 20, 2007 at 4:59 pm

    Happy Birthday Alexandra! I hope you have a lot (NN-##) of Happy Birthdays to come.

  5. Zozeer says

    December 20, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    Happy birthday!

  6. Dave T. Game says

    December 20, 2007 at 6:22 pm

    Happy Birthday!

    I bet it actually has its advantages, being married to an evil Overlord…

  7. Scarecrow says

    December 20, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    Breithlá shona duit!

    (That’s happy birthday in the native Irish tongue, a language that’s almost dead, and forcefed to Irish youngsters in schools, soon we’ll be rid of it .. soooooon)

    As you command, Overlord.

  8. Phased Weasel says

    December 20, 2007 at 11:36 pm

    Happy Birthday! I would say it in French (I’ve had 4 years training because I attended highschool in Burlington, VT), but honestly beyond l’anniversaire it has abandonded me. I’m in graduate school, maybe I’ll audit a class and get that back. It’s a cool language.

  9. Phased Weasel says

    December 20, 2007 at 11:37 pm

    “That’s happy birthday in the native Irish tongue, a language that’s almost dead, and forcefed to Irish youngsters in schools, soon we’ll be rid of it .. soooooon”

    Nooooo! Didn’t you read the intro to Seamus Heaney’s “Beowfulf”? Irisih is nearly dead, protect your precious heritage!

  10. andy says

    December 21, 2007 at 12:48 am

    Happy Birthday.

    Clearly we have a ‘May/December’ thing going on here, the wife appears to be 20 years young, right? 😉

  11. ChattyDM says

    December 21, 2007 at 8:45 am

    Alex thanks you all warmly and said that Andy wins a thousand Million Overlord-Wife karma points.

  12. Scarecrow says

    December 21, 2007 at 9:35 am

    “Nooooo! Didn’t you read the intro to Seamus Heaney’s “Beowfulf”? Irisih is nearly dead, protect your precious heritage!”

    Yes, I have, but let us not sully ChattyDM’s comment column with an argument about the evolution of a countries heritage, and the necessity to let go of the past. =)

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