Tuesday 24 November 2009

My Best Birthday Present

It was back in the later '80s. I had finished my PhD as was struggling to establish a new research team at the British Museum to investigate deep-sea biodiversity. I was paid a salary roughly equivalent to a senior technician and so had to design computer games in my freetime. I had a beautiful wife, a young child and a sodding great mortgage and an annual season ticket to support.

We were so broke that my wife and daughter made me a chocolate tank cake as a birthday present. Now I can afford titans, but you know, this was my best birthday present ever.

John

13 comments:

  1. its true, the price or quality never matters, it is the thought that counts

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  2. I wish my birthday was anywhere near as good as yours. It was not, however.

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  3. ok, a tank cake is pretty cool..but....You worked at the British Museum, and that somehow led to buying titans? sign me up! (I may have the causality wrong here, but who cares!)

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  4. Best scratch-built armor I've ever seen.

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  5. Dear Drathmere,
    I am not sure there is cause and effect in there, but who knows?
    John

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  6. It is anyway a Titan of familial love, and has the spirit we all are looking for in minis : the real juice of authenticity.

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