rocketXpert

A while back, I announced that I'd do a "kiriban" or free pic for whoever the one millionth visitor to my page here was, but I reached that milestone at 8:40 AM, Central time, yesterday morning, and that millionth person, whoever they were, failed to come forward, so now nobody gets anything.  To be fair, that announcement was in 2012 and I haven't mentioned it again in the ensuing seven years, so I didn't really expect anyone to remember. Do people even do kiribans anymore?  I haven't seen that term used in a long time. I hit a million views quicker than I expected.  When I made that announcement, I hadn't had this account very long, and b

I’m bad at remembering birthdays, even when it comes to half the members of my immediate family.  Probably the only reason I remember my dad’s is because he made it the password for the garage door in the house I grew up in.  It doesn’t matter so much that I can’t remember my Mom’s, since she’s been dead over a decade, though that meant I didn’t realize right away why I should have been upset at the date our dad’s second wife had initially chosen for their wedding.  My sister’s birthday is shortly after Christmas (lucky her), so that’s easy to remember, and my youngest sibling’