Yes, do "visit garbage-house.com"... if this chick doesn't eat it

I know, I know - how fucking sad, a self-referential congratulatory birthday blog. It's a total cliche, but at the end of the day, a blog is a compendium of my life; and unfortunately, I'm the only bugger who would bother to commit my insignificant minutiae to the web (for my "burgeoning" audience of five, and "growing"). Just be thankful I didn't refer to myself in the third person.

So, 26 years ago, at 10:45am, Mum squeezed out a bona fide whopper of a child - all 9 pounds. Not in one go, mind - I got stuck half way. Apparently the doctor had to give me a big ol' yank while she sat on the edge of the birthing table. Straight down. Mum's always very graphic in the retelling.

Course, she's not around to retell it with glee on the actual day - the parent's travel plans have seen them absent for the last five birthdays running. Not that I'm dirty or anything, it's just another birthday - but if I rub it in at every opportunity, it may score me big come inheritance time. *Fingers crossed*.

At any rate, I've opted to go low-key this year - had an awesome dinner on Friday night, and am scooting off to Gold Class today to see Transformers.

In lieu of me reporting anything overly interesting, I've fallen back on an old - and scarily frequent - favourite.

From Wikipedia:
Twenty-six is:

• The number of World Series Championships won by the New York Yankees through 2006.
• The number of letters in the English and Interlingua alphabets, if capital letters are not distinguished from lowercase letters.
• The English alphabet-inspired name of the not-for-profit group 26, which campaigns to inspire a greater love of and more effective use of words.
• The number of miles in a marathon rounded down (26 miles and 385 yards).
• The designation of Interstate 26, a freeway that runs from South Carolina to Tennessee.
• The car number of Will Ferrell's title character in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. In real life, however, this is Jamie McMurray's car number.
• Michigan is the 26th state to be admitted to the United States.
• Often the number of episodes in a television program each year; this allows one new show per week for half the year, and one rerun per week for the rest of the year.
• The name of a baby dinosaur in Dinotopia series.
• The alias of punk rock singer Doc Corbin Dart
• The age at which males can no longer be drafted in the United States
• The number of words sent in 43.24 seconds by Kimberly Yeo of Singapore to set the Guinness Book of World Records record for fastest text message
  • Ms Yeo sent the following sentence, established as the official standard by Guinness for this record: “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”
• The number worn by Anthony Sgroi of the Long Island Legend
• A recurring number in the RPG 'Final Fantasy 2k3'
• The "joke throw" in the game of darts, where a player throws 20, 5 and 1 when aiming for 20 (or treble 20). In professional darts, throwing 26 usually results in sneers or laughter from the audience.
• A dice game popular in the midwest United States from the 1930s to 1950s; players had to roll a chosen number 26 times or more, exactly 13 or fewer than 10.
• The number of suitcases featured on the game show Deal or No Deal.

(Going by that first para, age seems to have suddenly inflated my vocabulary too: Compendium? Minutiae? Burgeoning? Who the fuck was that?)