I wrote this on my Treo cell phone yesterday and sent it — but it didn’t get delivered. Turns out I had a senior moment and sent it to the wrong e-mail address! So, belatedly, here’s what I wrote yesterday:

Some computer systems make a distinction between a birthday and a birthdate. A birthday occurs annually on the same date every year. A birthdate, however, occurs once in a person’s lifetime. So today is the anniversary of my birthdate as I celebrate a birthday. It is just a pretty normal, everyday birthday. It’s Sunday and I’m in church. This is a Ward Conference Sunday so I’m in the City Creek Ward. This afternoon I’ll attend the Pocatello 1st Ward meetings.

We did our celebrating yesterday, on Nina’s sixtieth birthday. There was a boat and RV show in Pocatello so we started there. The show was very small, consequently about ten minutes later we were done there. After lunch we drove over to Soda Springs. Nina had prepared dinner: roast beef, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn (and other nefarious vegetables), and peach cobbler for desert. My sister Eileen and her husband Phil had come up from Utah as well. We had a lovely visit and I introduced Eileen to her blog (coming Real Soon Now). Just for the record, we had Nina’s birthday dinner last week in Idaho Falls. We’re done celebrating our birthdays now for another year. We’ll both certainly have fewer birthdays in future years as we have had in years past. That’s OK as the alternative to celebrating a birthday is not in my plans. There are still too many things yet to do in my remaining years of life and anniversaries of my birthdate yet to celebrate.

That was it. Now for a small update on the picture album process. When I wrote the picture album software, I knew how it worked because, of course, I wrote it. I knew, for instance, that apostrophes and quotation marks in the names of picture files or in the topic index would cause the programs not to work so I’d never put them in. Now, of course, I’ve put several other people up on this server with their own weblogs and have given them all the programs to upload pictures. They didn’t know the limitations and consequently they’d post pictures that couldn’t be displayed, or topics that’d disappear. I finally fixed all of those problems tonight. Picture file names can have spaces in them (the program converts the spaces to underscores). They can have apostrophes (the program now understands that). Topics can have apostrophes. If a topic has quotation mark(s), the program removes them. I wonder what other problems I’ve got in this code because I wrote it for me and not for the general public? I’m sure I’ll find out!