33 today..................dull one

well another birthday has come along and as always i'm not happy about it. i never really want to celebrate them as it is just another day. don't get me wrong i love getting cards from people as it's always nice o know someone was thinking about you but just like christmas there really is no need for presents. i am grateful for what i recieve though. shit, i'm starting to sound like a prayer. better hit that nonsense on the head right away.

i do however get to spend my birthday with my nearest and dearest (most of them anyway), and of course i have the best birthday present ever, my daughter who has made life so much more interesting and beautiful.

so 33, just another number really so lets see what we have on the no. 33:

1. 33 is the largest positive integer that can not be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers. It is also the smallest odd repdigit that's not prime (unless we consider 1-digit integers to also be repdigits).

2. The atomic number of arsenic

3. The number of innings played in the longest baseball game in history (a 1981 minor league game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox in Pawtucket, Rhode Island).

4. Jersey number of basketball player Patrick Ewing. The number was retired on February 28, 2003 by the New York Knicks.

5. The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -1662 May 22 and ended on -364 July 10. The duration of Saros series 33 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 lunar eclipses.

6. Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three

7. The number printed on all Rolling Rock beer labels

8. The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry has 33 degrees.

9. A normal human spine has 33 vertebrae when the bones that form the coccyx are counted individually

10. A song by the Smashing Pumpkins on their Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album. Also a song by Coheed and Cambria on their The Second Stage Turbine Blade album (the songs are not related)

11. Number of Cantos in each of Dante's 3 parts of The Divine Comedy

12. The namesake of the private club, Club 33, located in Disneyland's New Orleans Square.

13. most importantly the number of years that i have graced your planet with my presence............lol (if oyu are lucky i'll have gone before the next 33 shuffle around)

well was going to put 33 examples in but the sun is shining and i have to fly home tomorrow so have a great sunday folks and normal service shall resume soon enough.