Wherein our hero turns 26

At 1:07am this morning, I officially entered the second quarter century of my time on this fine earth of ours. Many people don't make much of birthdays, but I think re-visiting the precise place in the universe where you were born is a cause for celebrating.

Let's examine my life in numbers:

• 26 --> years I've been breathing through my lungs
• 15,192,777,600 --> miles I've traveled around the sun
• 819,936,000 --> seconds I've been alive
• 10 --> length of my hair in feet if I had never cut it
• 39,760 --> dreams I've had
• 7 --> dreams I remember today
• 3 --> countries I've visited
• 33 --> states I've visited or driven through (not counting airports)
• 6 --> songs I've written
• 1,250 --> Sundays I've spent at Church
• 5 --> schools I've attended
• 20 --> years I've been a full-time student
• 1,093,973,400 --> times my overworked heart has beaten
• 3 --> freakin awesome siblings I have
• 11 --> beautiful nieces and nephews I have
• 409,968,000 --> breaths I've taken
• 8 --> full-length concerts I've personally produced
• 3 --> appearances I've made on TV
• 4,500 --> gallons of water I've drunk
• 0 --> fluid ounces of alcohol I've drunk
• 6 --> real jobs I've had
• 4 --> times I've gotten extremely ill
• 0 --> bones I've broken
• 200 --> "it's a boy" announcement cards my father had to re-print when he realized I wasn't born on March 21
• 9 --> holes of golf I've played
• 3 --> speeding tickets I've gotten
• 0 --> times I've been arrested
• 1 --> wife who woke up early this morning to get me Panera bagels
• 117 --> blog posts I've written

One awesome life: priceless.