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🎶 I don’t know about you / but I’m feeling twenty-two (times two) 🎶

Had a great 44th birthday. I am also now 11 times more secure than your average private key.

Calls with family, lunch at El Chupacabra, pinball at Ice Box Arcade again, my Starbucks birthday freebie, cake, a movie… good times. Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes today!

Nick, a white man with a partly grey beard, viewed in profile while sitting on a couch laughing and holding an iPhone with people on video chat. Behind him is a gas fireplace and a pink framed painting
Getting happy birthday wishes FaceTime from family
Nick sitting in a restaurant booth holding a beer and smiling. Behind him is an ofrenda display of calaveras and votive candles.
El Chup is decorated for Dia de los Muertos
A big oval white restaurant platter with a deep fried burrito, vegan cheez, refried black beans, rice, pico de gallo, guacamole, and vegan sour cream in a little cup
Vegan chimichanga, yum
A child in a black hoodie and a man in a blue rain jacket seen from behind playing pinball. The child is at a modern Elton John table and the man is at a Bram Stoker's Dracula '90s table
Our first plays of the day
Nick, a smiling white man in glasses and a blue rain jacket, is sitting on a stool playing a Raiden II arcade cabinet. Behind him on another stool is a child in a black hoodie playing a Pac-Man/Galaga cabinet.
My hand cramps trying to play an arcade favorite, Raiden II
A man in a colorful iMac shirt and his child (wearing some kind of blue ribboned medal) side hug while standing in front of a row of pinball tables, including a Mandalorian one and a Foo Fighters one
We enjoyed the Mandalorian and Foo Fighters tables
Andrle, a smiling white woman, plays a vintage Dolly Parton table. The woman in the art on the back display vaguely resembles Dolly.
Andrle found a vintage Dolly table
A screenshot of a bunch of labeled colorful diamonds showing achievements I unlocked on modern connected pinball tables
Yes I set up a Stern Insider account for the achievements
Nick, a smiling white man in glasses, sits at a glass dining room table behind a chocolate cake. The cake has two mismatched number 4 candles in it, the first bigger, as well as four very thing spiral silver tapers.
Mmm chocolate cake
Andrle and Nick sit on a couch being goofy making kissy faces while wearing translucent pink star fashion glasses instead of their usual prescription ones.
Borrowing some accessories from one of kid’s Spirit Week outfits
#birthday #cake #candles #food #pinball #seattle #vegan