What is this?
  An attempt to kill multiple birds with one stone, held together with duct tape and tears.

A Preface
  I've got a Christmas box full of random small gifts and postcards that I've been collecting since February of last year. It's slowly been accumlating dust in a corner of my closet. Quite frankly, the hoard keeps growing and I don't know what to do with it (It also doesn't help that I don't have your current address, and that [I think?] it's basically become ridiculous to send anything bigger than a letter to the States?). Either way, the box haunts me. I figured, instead of doing more of the same, I'd do something a little more ... tangible? As tangible as the internet can be at least. Consider this my version of an online birthday card.

Anyways, Happy Birthday to my favourite Americanized Canadian!
   Thanks for being my (sometimes enraging) gaming buddy. The person willing to let me blather on about whatever I'm currently working on, or obsessed with. For basically creating a required reading list of media in my dms, even if I wasn't checking on it regularly. And honestly, thanks for just being you.

Sometimes the goings get tough. This year especially has had its own shares of ups and downs, but we get through it. One way or another.

So here's to levelling up, and successfully surviving another year.

I'll see you on Sunday my dude.