I turned ten thousand days old today. I worked this out while bored at work a few years back and it’s finally come around. I took the day off work to celebrate, and later me and the other kids went home to my folks’ place for dinner. We had cake. Not exactly the wild party that I had thought of organising to celebrate the occasion, but it was an icecream cake, so everything worked out for the best in the end ;)

I googled “10,000 days old” and came across

  • a number of sites that calculate when this occurs;
  • a site that sells 10,000-days-old merchandise, cards, and organises 10,000 day parties in the UK;
  • a number of sites offering 10,000 days old whiskey; and
  • The album “10,000 days” by Tool. Apparently that was the length of time between the lead-singer’s mother becoming partially-paralyzed and dying.

The next milestone for me will be turning one billion seconds old (1,000,000,000s) on 30 August 2010. I’ll have a big party then. Put it in your diary. BYO.