Historically, April 19th is day that for a lot of people is somewhat of a condemned day on the calendar.\u00a0 Some might consider it a day of death:<\/p>\n
But it’s not all death and tragedy; three very well-known professional athletes were born on April 19th:\u00a0 In 1981,\u00a0Troy Polamalu<\/strong><\/a>, the wild-haired strong safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers who covers, well, the non-aquatic covered Earth was born.\u00a0 In 1983, the franchise of the Minnesota Twins and sabermetric Triple Crown winner, catcher\u00a0Joe Mauer\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was born.\u00a0 In 1987, arguably the prize package of women’s tennis,\u00a0Maria Sharapova\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was born.<\/p>\n So what’s the point of all this?\u00a0 If it isn’t already obvious, it’s because\u00a0April 19th is my birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m 28 now.\u00a0 That means, I’m peaking into my optimum power years, and my “man-power” will manifest; if I were to go to the batting cages between now and the age of 32, I should technically be capable of crushing baseballs to the moon, or at least across the street.\u00a0 Otherwise, there is nothing else special about turning 28.\u00a0 I could drink (legally) at 21, I could rent cars without egregious premiums at 25, and then there’s really nothing else until I’m 65, when I can qualify for AARP, and get some wicked discounts everywhere I go from there on.\u00a0 And casinos will likely be a lot nicer to me then too.<\/p>\n But not to say that I’m down about my birthday the least bit.\u00a0 I may be at work today at a job I dislike because I need the hours, but I’m not resentful for it.\u00a0 Nobody here knows about my birthday, which is fine with me.\u00a0 My family’s all wished me well today, and I can’t ask for much more from them.\u00a0 And later tonight, there will hopefully be a pleasant dining experience with some barbecue and $1 drafts.<\/p>\n I suppose I’m at the age where I need to think about my future more.\u00a0 I’m still single and fairly aimless with the direction of my life, but I suppose what I’d like to aspire to do in the next year, and hopefully before I’m 30, is nail down a full-time job that isn’t going to make me feel as homicidal as all the aforementioned tragedies too often, and perhaps be somewhere in a meaningful relationship with a girl I might consider marrying.\u00a0 Preferably one with doe-eyes, nice rack, yoga ass, and doesn’t mind my love of baseball, video games, and all my other idiosyncrasies.\u00a0 It’s my birthday, I can get away with this shit at least today, not that I wouldn’t say it any of the other 364 days of the year.<\/p>\n But anyway, Happy Birthday to me. I’ve already gotten one half of my desired present, which was a Braves win yesterday, with a heroic, come-from-behind, game-winning hit in the bottom of the 9th inning against the Rockies, and hopefully I’ll get the other half with a win against the hated Phillies tomorrow night.\u00a0 Anything else, from anyone else, is simply gravy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Historically, April 19th is day that for a lot of people is somewhat of a condemned day on the calendar.\u00a0 Some might consider it a day of death: In 1993, fires ravaged in Waco, Texas, ending a 51-day standoff between supposed cultists and the FBI resulting in about 80 human casualties. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh … Continue reading April the Nineteenth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,45,15,68,49],"class_list":["post-26301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-birthday","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-tragedy","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26302,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![Troy Polamalu<\/strong><\/a>, the wild-haired strong safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers who covers, well, the non-aquatic covered Earth was born.\u00a0 In 1983, the franchise of the Minnesota Twins and sabermetric Triple Crown winner, catcher\u00a0Joe Mauer\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was born.\u00a0 In 1987, arguably the prize package of women’s tennis,\u00a0Maria Sharapova\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was born.<\/p>\nSo what’s the point of all this?\u00a0 If it isn’t already obvious, it’s because\u00a0April 19th is my birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\nI’m 28 now.\u00a0 That means, I’m peaking into my optimum power years, and my “man-power” will manifest; if I were to go to the batting cages between now and the age of 32, I should technically be capable of crushing baseballs to the moon, or at least across the street.\u00a0 Otherwise, there is nothing else special about turning 28.\u00a0 I could drink (legally) at 21, I could rent cars without egregious premiums at 25, and then there’s really nothing else until I’m 65, when I can qualify for AARP, and get some wicked discounts everywhere I go from there on.\u00a0 And casinos will likely be a lot nicer to me then too.<\/p>\nBut not to say that I’m down about my birthday the least bit.\u00a0 I may be at work today at a job I dislike because I need the hours, but I’m not resentful for it.\u00a0 Nobody here knows about my birthday, which is fine with me.\u00a0 My family’s all wished me well today, and I can’t ask for much more from them.\u00a0 And later tonight, there will hopefully be a pleasant dining experience with some barbecue and $1 drafts.<\/p>\nI suppose I’m at the age where I need to think about my future more.\u00a0 I’m still single and fairly aimless with the direction of my life, but I suppose what I’d like to aspire to do in the next year, and hopefully before I’m 30, is nail down a full-time job that isn’t going to make me feel as homicidal as all the aforementioned tragedies too often, and perhaps be somewhere in a meaningful relationship with a girl I might consider marrying.\u00a0 Preferably one with doe-eyes, nice rack, yoga ass, and doesn’t mind my love of baseball, video games, and all my other idiosyncrasies.\u00a0 It’s my birthday, I can get away with this shit at least today, not that I wouldn’t say it any of the other 364 days of the year.<\/p>\nBut anyway, Happy Birthday to me. I’ve already gotten one half of my desired present, which was a Braves win yesterday, with a heroic, come-from-behind, game-winning hit in the bottom of the 9th inning against the Rockies, and hopefully I’ll get the other half with a win against the hated Phillies tomorrow night.\u00a0 Anything else, from anyone else, is simply gravy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historically, April 19th is day that for a lot of people is somewhat of a condemned day on the calendar.\u00a0 Some might consider it a day of death: In 1993, fires ravaged in Waco, Texas, ending a 51-day standoff between supposed cultists and the FBI resulting in about 80 human casualties. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh … Continue reading April the Nineteenth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,45,15,68,49],"class_list":["post-26301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-birthday","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-tragedy","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26302,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/si\/2009\/writers\/dom_bonvissuto\/01\/18\/ravenssteelersgrades\/troy-polamalu.jpg\"){kind=link}
![Joe Mauer\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was born.\u00a0 In 1987, arguably the prize package of women’s tennis,\u00a0Maria Sharapova\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was born.<\/p>\nSo what’s the point of all this?\u00a0 If it isn’t already obvious, it’s because\u00a0April 19th is my birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\nI’m 28 now.\u00a0 That means, I’m peaking into my optimum power years, and my “man-power” will manifest; if I were to go to the batting cages between now and the age of 32, I should technically be capable of crushing baseballs to the moon, or at least across the street.\u00a0 Otherwise, there is nothing else special about turning 28.\u00a0 I could drink (legally) at 21, I could rent cars without egregious premiums at 25, and then there’s really nothing else until I’m 65, when I can qualify for AARP, and get some wicked discounts everywhere I go from there on.\u00a0 And casinos will likely be a lot nicer to me then too.<\/p>\nBut not to say that I’m down about my birthday the least bit.\u00a0 I may be at work today at a job I dislike because I need the hours, but I’m not resentful for it.\u00a0 Nobody here knows about my birthday, which is fine with me.\u00a0 My family’s all wished me well today, and I can’t ask for much more from them.\u00a0 And later tonight, there will hopefully be a pleasant dining experience with some barbecue and $1 drafts.<\/p>\nI suppose I’m at the age where I need to think about my future more.\u00a0 I’m still single and fairly aimless with the direction of my life, but I suppose what I’d like to aspire to do in the next year, and hopefully before I’m 30, is nail down a full-time job that isn’t going to make me feel as homicidal as all the aforementioned tragedies too often, and perhaps be somewhere in a meaningful relationship with a girl I might consider marrying.\u00a0 Preferably one with doe-eyes, nice rack, yoga ass, and doesn’t mind my love of baseball, video games, and all my other idiosyncrasies.\u00a0 It’s my birthday, I can get away with this shit at least today, not that I wouldn’t say it any of the other 364 days of the year.<\/p>\nBut anyway, Happy Birthday to me. I’ve already gotten one half of my desired present, which was a Braves win yesterday, with a heroic, come-from-behind, game-winning hit in the bottom of the 9th inning against the Rockies, and hopefully I’ll get the other half with a win against the hated Phillies tomorrow night.\u00a0 Anything else, from anyone else, is simply gravy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historically, April 19th is day that for a lot of people is somewhat of a condemned day on the calendar.\u00a0 Some might consider it a day of death: In 1993, fires ravaged in Waco, Texas, ending a 51-day standoff between supposed cultists and the FBI resulting in about 80 human casualties. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh … Continue reading April the Nineteenth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,45,15,68,49],"class_list":["post-26301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-birthday","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-tragedy","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26302,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/jakerake.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/joe-mauer.jpg\"){kind=link}
![Maria Sharapova\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was born.<\/p>\nSo what’s the point of all this?\u00a0 If it isn’t already obvious, it’s because\u00a0April 19th is my birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\nI’m 28 now.\u00a0 That means, I’m peaking into my optimum power years, and my “man-power” will manifest; if I were to go to the batting cages between now and the age of 32, I should technically be capable of crushing baseballs to the moon, or at least across the street.\u00a0 Otherwise, there is nothing else special about turning 28.\u00a0 I could drink (legally) at 21, I could rent cars without egregious premiums at 25, and then there’s really nothing else until I’m 65, when I can qualify for AARP, and get some wicked discounts everywhere I go from there on.\u00a0 And casinos will likely be a lot nicer to me then too.<\/p>\nBut not to say that I’m down about my birthday the least bit.\u00a0 I may be at work today at a job I dislike because I need the hours, but I’m not resentful for it.\u00a0 Nobody here knows about my birthday, which is fine with me.\u00a0 My family’s all wished me well today, and I can’t ask for much more from them.\u00a0 And later tonight, there will hopefully be a pleasant dining experience with some barbecue and $1 drafts.<\/p>\nI suppose I’m at the age where I need to think about my future more.\u00a0 I’m still single and fairly aimless with the direction of my life, but I suppose what I’d like to aspire to do in the next year, and hopefully before I’m 30, is nail down a full-time job that isn’t going to make me feel as homicidal as all the aforementioned tragedies too often, and perhaps be somewhere in a meaningful relationship with a girl I might consider marrying.\u00a0 Preferably one with doe-eyes, nice rack, yoga ass, and doesn’t mind my love of baseball, video games, and all my other idiosyncrasies.\u00a0 It’s my birthday, I can get away with this shit at least today, not that I wouldn’t say it any of the other 364 days of the year.<\/p>\nBut anyway, Happy Birthday to me. I’ve already gotten one half of my desired present, which was a Braves win yesterday, with a heroic, come-from-behind, game-winning hit in the bottom of the 9th inning against the Rockies, and hopefully I’ll get the other half with a win against the hated Phillies tomorrow night.\u00a0 Anything else, from anyone else, is simply gravy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historically, April 19th is day that for a lot of people is somewhat of a condemned day on the calendar.\u00a0 Some might consider it a day of death: In 1993, fires ravaged in Waco, Texas, ending a 51-day standoff between supposed cultists and the FBI resulting in about 80 human casualties. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh … Continue reading April the Nineteenth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,45,15,68,49],"class_list":["post-26301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-birthday","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-tragedy","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26302,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.money-moguls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/mariasharapova1.jpg\"){kind=link}