I don’t know why, but for some reason I thought Perry’s birthday was today, the 6th of February. It occurred to me 2 days ago and I was in a panic. I was wondering what gift I would get since the shipping window was over, and even sent Ben a text letting him know we’d be doing cake and ice-cream on Thursday.
Looking for a photo of Perry to share on his non-birthday, I ran across the following one from last year. I didn’t share it earlier because it’s a reminder of how a certain few number of Disney rides are incredibly hard on bad backs. I look like a blind woman in pain — and half of that was right.
Perry’s b-day is 2/24 — not 2/6.
I still don’t know what I’ll buy for him and feel pretty stupid that I screwed up the date. At least I didn’t buy a cake. Everyone does stupid things sometimes. In today’s connected world complete with social media, we hear about most of those crazy things. Like this guy…
Now you know: During the Cold War, the U.S. developed the Davy Crockett, a recoilless rifle that fired one of the smallest nuclear warheads ever made.