From My Grandmother

[bjarvis]

Hope you have a good Day. We celebrated here by burning down a house which, I understand, was one of the first houses to be built in Drumbo. It was quite close to several others and the firemen were afraid that if it got going in the right direction, it could take out the whole street. It's the most exciting thing that has gone on here.

My grandmother was willing to torch an entire block of her village in honour of my birthday! How sweet!

Top that, betches! :-)

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[bigfundrew.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, boo boo!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Now if I can just sneak out of the office early...

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Your grandmother is a bigger flamer than you? Wow!

Happy Birthday!! Have fun with all those candles!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Can you see the glow from the west coast?

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Your glow knows no borders.

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

What do you think started that house fire?

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

kent, honey, whatever happened to that masterpiece, facedowninthecandydish.com?

it was up for the beginning of Brian's fifth decade, but seems to have disappeared. Why? he's not getting any younger!

- - curious in trawna

[rwgill.livejournal.com]

Your grandmother rocks.

Happy day to you!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Just don't invite her to your town unless you're heavily insured.

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, Boo.

Just how many candles on top o' that cake?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

41 candles. Or, apparently, one historic home. :-)

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Never mind the historic home, that damn cake is gonna be a conflagration!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

And you thought global warming was caused by fossil fuels...

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

It is Blanche, it is.......

In other words.........

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

EVIL!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Honey, your next birthday cake will be visible from orbit.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

What's the word I'm thinking??????

[ljtourist.livejournal.com]

Wow! You've assimilatedfit in nicely!

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday my friend! I still have you beat in the candle dept though. :-P

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Always the over-achiever! :-)

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Hehe... Can't help the candle bit, if anything, I've been the UNDER achiever. :-P

[beartalon.livejournal.com]

Given the weather warnings here, it would have been easy to spread the flames around. For some, it's just natural. ;)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

It's a *gift*! :-)

[beartalon.livejournal.com]

And, as we believe we're born that way, it must have been one you got on your birthday.

[manley1.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!!!!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Thank you! So far, so good!

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

LOL. This cracks me up. I love your grandmother and I haven't even met her yet. She sounds like a hoot.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

She is a blast and I hope you'll be able to meet her soon.

[musicbearmn.livejournal.com]

I love your grandma. Can I adopt her?

And, Happy Birthday, you sexy thing!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the pair of you would hit it off immediately.

And thanks, handsome! *woof*!

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Happy, happy, happy. Let me be the first to point out that you will be prime for the whole year. You may need preservatives after that.

Hmm, and in the longer run, there's probably enough material on LJ and your hard drive to duplicate your personality as an AI, to within 98% level.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm prime! Yay!

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

Those quaint Canadian customs! That's one way to stay warm in those northern Ontario sticks.

All this talk of how many candles... It's beginning to dawn on me why Palm Springs is so warm. Watch, they'll probably hit a quota soon and not let me in because of candlepower restrictions. ;-)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

"Excuse me, what's the carbon footprint of that birthday cake?"

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

Those quaint Canadian customs! That's one way to stay warm in those northern Ontario sticks

Brian's boyhood home in northern Ontario burned down (but not, I b'leeve, on his birthday).

The house that burned today, as reported by Brian's Grandma, was in Drumbo ON, which is not north. It's south of me in Toronto, f'rinstance. It's about halfway between Woodstock ON and Kitchener ON, latitude 43.16N. By way of comparison, it's south of both Portland OR (46N) and Portland ME (43.39N), and almost exactly the same latitude as Milwaukee.

As to keeping warm - well, it is rather chilly and howling a gale hereabouts today. Maybe that's why the locals set it ablaze!

I stand corrected!!

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

[EDIT:] Those quaint Canadian customs! That's one way to stay warm in those, um, Southern, um, Ontario... um, sticks.

[That better?]

[books ticket to New Burbage Festival]

[tennisnutzo.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!! :-)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Wheee!

[ljtourist.livejournal.com]

Yes, a very happy birthday to you. Google News reports no fires near you, so I assume the party went well. :)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yup, the house and neighbourhood is still (largely) intact and all folks are accounted for. :-)