One BILLION Seconds (Of Evil)

[mishalak]

Well of snarkiness would be more accurate, but not as good sounding. I recently worked it out using a calculator. Which gave me a slightly different result than when I tried to do it in my head yesterday. But 11574.0741 Days = One Billion Seconds, More Or Less. Adding up the numbers of days, leap seconds, allowing for DST, and so on that tells me that I will have been around for one billion seconds on CE 2008 December 19th at 9:46:21am Mountain Standard Time. (If you want to do a rough estimate of when you'll have a billion or two billion that is 31 years eight months from my birth, with a bit left over.)

I was hopeful it would fall this year so I could have a big silly boffo party 'round about June. But it won't be for a bit and it comes in the morning. Bah on that. Well I'll just say I didn't become EVIL for a full twelve hours after that. So Friday December 19th there will be a party in the evening. Glad I worked that out early. And I'll need a new EVIL icon for my journal before then.

Right. But now that it is less than two months out it is time for me to start thinking about how I will or will not celebrate by natal day. Because I'm going to be 30 this year. Big round number that. BIG round number. Yikes. I think I'll kip off to Hawaii and see my boyfriend for the actual day of. So I'll be gone from April 8th to the 15th. Karval Kon is likely to be around that time, perhaps I shall take cake and beer to that. But I think I should also do something with my friends in town. Not on the Date of DASFA, the 21st. Perhaps on the 28th of the month? How does that work for people who would like to celebrate with me? And I'm thinking there should be TEA. It will be a festivitea to celebrate my nativitea.

Comments

[ckd]

Since I was born a few months after the beginning of the Unix epoch, I knew when that hit a gigasecond that I was soon to do the same.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Did you celebrate it, or just let it go past?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

The big date I celebrated was the day I was as old as my mother was when she died. No longer could people say "But your mother did this when she was your age." I hadn't done anything she did, so the time was really useless, but at least they couldn't say it anymore.

[ckd]

I let it go past; I was somewhat distracted at the time.

The Unix gigasecond hit on September 9, 2001. Mine was in mid-March of the following year.

[ajournalguy.livejournal.com]

You’re almost 30!?( Stupid me calculated that after the 1st paragraph and started this comment before reading the rest.) I can never wrap my head around people turning 30. That’s, like, half as old as my parents, dude. The vast majority of people I know over 30 were already over 30 when I met them. 20, 40, 50, I have no issue with. 25 is only shocking when I realize that I will be of this Earth a quarter century before the ball drops in Times Square again. The 60 thing was weird, but, then, they were always old anyway. But, man... 30... I dunno, dude, it’s just, like, crazy.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Is it half as old as my parents as well. If I'd followed the normal family pattern I'd be having my first child sometime this year.

[ajournalguy.livejournal.com]

Just don’t go getting pregnant in Hawai‘i. You being 30 is enough to comprehend.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I'm the seme, if anyone gets preggers it will be Richard. Hee!

[ajournalguy.livejournal.com]

*eye roll* Otaku.

I suddenly have this image of an undefined cute guy producing half a dozen snarky little Mishalakoids - I don’t wanna know where from.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm going to be 52 next month!

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Well that means that nine years ago I was half your age. Now I'm almost 3/5 your age.

[ajournalguy.livejournal.com]

You’re catching up to her, old man.

...It’s still just too weird, and I haven’t even met you.
I remember when Travis turned 30 I was traumatized. Hmm... Travis. I should call him sometime. See if there’s gay life after 30.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Because I'm going to be 30 this year.

Talk to me when you hit 40, young'un. :P

(I'll be 40 in August.)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

When I do you'll just say, "Talk to me when you're 50 whippersnapper." And then...

Plus 30 is when gay men die, didn't you realize that you're just a phantom/mirage?

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

When I do you'll just say, "Talk to me when you're 50 whippersnapper." And then...

And then I'll hit you with my walker. :P

Plus 30 is when gay men die, didn't you realize that you're just a phantom/mirage?

Don't remind me. I get little enough attention downtown as it is (though I'm caring less than I used to).

Unfortunately, it was roughly a month after my 30th birthday that my ex-husband decided to walk out on me, so I was essentially gay-dead from the moment I became single.