My birthday has gone very, very well so far. Last night Kara and I were going to take the midnight ferry across the sound to Bainbridge Island, but we missed the ferry so we took the long drive around the sound.

A policeman stopped us going 65 MPH in a 60 zone and I thought for sure he was going to give me a ticket (my first ever ticket, actually). After checking out my license and registration he walked back to the door and said, “I’m going to let you off this time with a warning.”

I thanked him and said that this was a great birthday present. He looked down and inspected my license with his flashlight and then said, “It sure is. Happy birthday.”

Then we went to an indian casino and to my surprise and amazement actually I hit a jackpot of 120,045 pennies on a penny slot machine! (I took a picture [9/10/07 6:52am PST: original URL since removed by Textamerica because they no longer support personal account: tdavid.textamerica.com/default.asp?r=86739] and so did the casino, which was neat)

I didn’t get a picture of the policeman stopping me … not sure how he would have liked that scenario.