Another successful
Dev Day in the books ladies and gentlemen.
What is Dev Day
you ask?
Well Dev Day is
the day I decided to come up with in 2014 while looking for a title for my
birthday blog. As some of you might know my birthday is a little different in
the sense that it also falls on Veterans Day as well, and well you guessed it,
I'm a veteran. So usually I spend the day going around and getting a whole bunch
of free food that I can stomach to eat. How Dev Day is setup is first I sign up
months in advance for loyalty programs and get their special birthday offers for
free meals. This includes restaurants like Chic-Fil-A, Moe's, Hooters, Buffalo
Wild Wings, Dunkin Doughnuts, Krispy Kreme, places like that. Then I simply
research all of the great Veterans Day deals and then I enjoy myself going to
each place.
Now I'm not greedy
by any circumstance and I don't go out and eat all of that food on my own, I
actually bring along my home boy Melzee and he reaps the benefits that is Dev
Day. We started doing it last year and it's sort of becoming a tradition now. I
don't know if I'm going to be able to do it next year seeing as how it's my 30th
birthday and I'm more than likely going to be in another country somewhere. But
for the most part we both get a ton of food to eat, more than one person and
sometimes two people to eat by themselves. But we make it happen and return home
with leftovers and we're happy for the day with life being all good.
This year I didn't
really get out there and do too much seeing as how I fell asleep from being at
work and got a late start to the day. We went to PDQ, Menchies, Jersey Mikes,
Starbucks, Honey Baked Ham, Which Wich, Moe's and finally Ben & Jerry's. I
actually got a little on the tired side so I didn't feel like doing the crowds
at some of the other places. I was quite happy with the turn out of my haul and
I'm just glad that I got my Starbucks drink in a timely manner. Basically the
food aspect was smooth and as perfect as it was going to be for the day.
I just want to
take the time to thank every single person that took the time out of their day
to wish me a happy birthday. I know I talk my trash about not really being a
birthday kind of person, but I'm trying to do better with that. I realize that
there are people in this world that would die to even get half of the love that
receive on my birthday, so I can't take that for granted. I can't for granted
for the fact that I made it to another year of living when so many people, more
importantly people of my race, haven't been able to make it to this age. I'm
especially thankful for the Lord for keeping me in his good graces on that
aspect.
The life
experiences that came along with being 28 was pretty awesome. I got back to a
lot of the old things that made me great while doing a lot of new things that
worked well with the old things. I learned a lot about people over the course of
the year and how they will fail you and also my own faults as a person that I
can improve on. I made a couple of goals last November that I wanted to take
effect in January of this year but decided to jump start it in December of last
year and they are all mostly completed.
More on that next
month.
But I look forward
to being 29, I set some goals that seemed big at the time and I'm setting some
even bigger ones that I'm looking forward to for 2016 on my way to 30. So if
you've been here for the past year and seen the growth not only in the blog but
also in me, I thank you. If you're new or just passing by then I thank you for
taking the time to stop by and read a little, (or in my case a lot lol), and I
hope that you stick around for awhile and catch some of the things that I talk
about here on Cold Knowledge; I promise you won't be disappointed.
Until next time
guys.
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