So its that time again, 11 days from now and I’ll be 39. It seems that this time a year for the past several years I can’t help but see where I’m at and where I want to be, and how far apart those seem to always be. I’ve given up comparing myself to my Father, in many aspects I’ll never be able to compete there, for instance by the time my Father was 39, I was already 15, and I currently have no one in my life that could be seen as a remote possibility of having kids with.

So here is what I am hoping for. On the totally outlandish scale, I’d like to make at least part-time money from writing by the time I hit the big 4-0. At the more reasonable level I hope to have at least one book (novel or novella) out in e-book. To this end, I have already purchased Chris A Moody.com which is a total replacement for my former: http://fiction.chrismoody.net.

Beyond that I don’t really have much.

So recently I had yet another birthday. I decided to do something quiet, and just have a few friends join me for dinner at one of my new favorite restaurants.

This was the restaurant I chose, if your in the mood for a good Bar-B-Que buffet, this is the place I would select in Houston, TX anyways.  I invited several people but only two came:

On the left is Paul E Cooley on the right is one of my neighbor’s Dave. While I had hoped more would come, hence the long table, it wounded up being fun as it was and a good time was had by all.