30

Yes, I’m 30 now. Conventional wisdom says I should feel old, but I don’t. It doesn’t help that I put together a list of things I wanted to have done by the time I turned thirty. I don’t have the list, and I don’t remember everything on it, but here’s a sample.

* Learn how to take apart and put back together an old engine
* Earn a black belt in some kind of martial art
* Visit Ireland

Okay, so I’ve done the last one, but most of them are left undone. And yet, it doesn’t really bother me. I finally feel like I’m going somewhere. I have a career instead of a job, and it actually challenges me intellectually. I have the chance to live a comfortable life soon, without living paycheck-to-paycheck. I have a loving wife, and two wonderful children.

Life is good.