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I don’t feel 29 today. Is this what happens as you get older? Birthdays stop feeling so special? I’ll still bask in the adulation of my family and friends, naturally, and get a kick out of hundreds of thousands of people all across the country (heck, world–there are expats, right?) eating my preferred birthday cake: pumpkin pie. They’ll be celebrating, and I’m going to share in it all. Hope everyone has a fabulous Thanksgving! Eat too much yummy food, watch some football, and be thankful for another year.

I’ll leave you with some 29 trivia, lifted from Wikipedia:

29 is the tenth prime number, and also the third primorial prime, the next prime number as well as primorial prime being thirty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime.
29 is the sixth Sophie Germain prime.
29 is a Lucas prime, a Pell prime, and a tetranacci number.
29 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.
None of the first 29 natural numbers have more than two different prime factors. This is the longest such consecutive sequence.
29 is a Markov number, appearing in the solutions to x2 + y2 + z2 = 3xyz: {2, 5, 29}, {2, 29, 169}, {5, 29, 433}, {29, 169, 14701}, etc.
29 is a Perrin number, preceded in the sequence by 12, 17, 22.
29 is the atomic number of copper
29 is approximately the length of the lunar month.
29 is the number of bones in a normal human skull.
29 is the number of letters in the Finnish, Faroese and Norwegian alphabets.
29 is the highest possible score in a hand of Cribbage.