Happy Birfday Op!

Of course we celebrate by looking back at Op's birfay on Xmastime through the years, some of which might have to do with him (but prolly not). Here's 2006:

From Things are Good, Part IV

9) This Sunday is my buddy Op’s 34th birthday. Happy Birthday, Op! Op has had quite a “Jesus Year”, as we call the year people are the age Jesus died – we tell people we expect great things that year. I don’t know why we do this; seems to me that if you end your 33rd year without being nailed alive to a piece of wood, your year was better than Jesus.’ Ah well.