Ace of Spades Day

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| Tue Oct. 19, 2010 9:18 AM PDT

Today is my birthday. I can now boast one year for every club, diamond, heart, and spade in a deck of cards. Not a pinochle deck. Not a skat deck. A standard deck. But not one with jokers, at least. Give me another twenty years and I'll finally be old enough to run for governor of California.

In cat years, however, I'm only about nine. So there's that.

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