Turning 28 is a fire hazard.

So today, I am one year older.

I talked to my nephew Gibson this morning on the phone today. Gibson is 20 years and 1 day younger than me, and will be turning 8 tomorrow. I told him that I was going to have 28 candles on my birthday cake today, and he asked, very concerned: "Won't that start a fire... or explode?" I just laughed, but then later, when I lit all 28 of them, I was alarmed at the rate the candles were burning down, and pretty surprised the smoke alarm didn't go off after blowing them out.



I guess Gibson knew what he was talking about after all.