My birthday started off pretty lousy. I was woken up way too early by a phone call, it was raining like crazy and the power went out. I figured this had to be some sort of horrible omen.

Everything started changing around mid-day. The rain cleared up, the power came back on, my beirut plans were coming together. All was well.

I wound up having dinner on Cyrus, which is always nice. Paying for dinner is overrated really. As per Adam's policy, you have to see what you can get for free on your birthday. My freebie came in the form of a pint of Guinness with a candle floating in it. Can't really ask for a better freebie than that; I do love Guinness.

Beirut took a while to get started, but it went well. we powered through about 30 beers in about an hour. I didn't get the full count on how many people played, but there were only about 3 or 4 that were playing all the time, so that means that the few of us had at least 6 beers each. I consider that a good accomplishment.

We topped it off the only way you can top off a night of Beirut, with La Burrita. Such was my 23rd birthday.