Overall I had a pretty good, if short, 25th. birthday. After scrambling to finish my final paper for my Information Security course i finally passed out about 1:45 AM on Monday only to wake up a few hours later to head to my Operations Management and then to work. When I got off work I met my parents at Zios Italian Kitchen as my family’s usual tradition dictates. After ordering my brother presented me with the gift of music. The gift included the soundtrack for the now canceled Firefly television show that I have mentioned a few times and that Matthew and i have fallen in love with. I had not had the time to track down a copy so I am glad that now i do not have to go to the trouble. 
Also, he gave me the soundtrack to the firefly movie Serenity. This I was not exactly expecting but I am glad to have it as the music from the Firefly verse’ so now I have several hours of really excellent music to enjoy and in addition I took two of my favorite tacks from the show and made them into ringtones. I have noticed that more people notice me when my phone goes off, and no not in that annoyed way, they either ask me about the song which allows me to convert more people or they come up and ask me if I am a Browncoat, either way so far it has been a conversation piece. 
I also at long last got my very own digital camera! I have been working to bet one of these shiny things for a number of years but something always prevented me. They are finally cheap enough that my parents purchased one for me for my birthday. It was picked out by my good friend Zack over at Best Buy so of course it is exactly what I wanted. The camera is very light weight and it fits perfectly in my hand or pocket without being microscopic so I do not have to worry about losing it. The only real requirements that I had were that it needed to be easy to use, take fairly high quality photos (IE 4 megapixels or higher), and that it was portable. I am no expert but this camera will be perfect for me when all that I need to do is take the occasional snapshot and this camera has all the automatic features that I could want such as autoblur and whatnot. As soon as I can I will post some pics that I have taken with it on Flickr as well as and some descriptions and whatnot to my MSU tour pics. Till then take care.
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