return void;

I found this post I made several months ago but wasn’t sure why I never published it. So, here it is. Maybe in 25 years, my kids will dig this up and find it just hilarious that their old man was pickin’ on his old man for turning 50.

My father turns 50 today so I wanted to commemorate his old age by posting the whimsical comment I put in his birthday card.

Wow, you’re 50. That’s half a century! I thought I would help you get a grasp on how old 50 really is; at 50 years old, you are older than the following inventions:

White-Out
Lasers
Hula-Hoops
Integrated Circuits
Barbie
Halogen lamps
Non-dairy creamer
Audio cassettes
Acrylic paint
Astroturf
Contact lenses
NutraSweet
Compact Discs
Kevlar

As if that weren’t enough, I thought I’d show you what things cost in 1956:

House: $22,000
Average Income: $4,454
Ford Car: $1,748 – $3,151
Gas: $0.23
Stamps: $0.03

By now, you’ve probably already forgotten why you’re reading this card. Happy Birthday you old fart!

My mother turns 50 on 9/11 (that’s as wierd as being born on 7/4 or 12/25) so we will be throwing a combined “Half Century Celebration” for them somewhere in the middle. I’ll post more with pictures from the party and what we got him my parents on their big five-o.