Happy Birthday to me. If you catch it today, here's this day in history on Yahoo. They pointed me to the History Channel.

The most notable January 2nd happening, after my birth in 1972 and my brother Kyle's a year later, in Isaac Asimov's birthday in 1920.

I took today off. I hate working on my birthday. I think I'll go see 'The Fellowship of the Ring' for the third time. That would be festive. It's been a very Tolkien Christmas. More on that later.

Hmm. It appears Meg is just one day older than me. Happy Birthday, Meg.

Coming tomorrow: Happy Birthday, Mr Tolkien.