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Thirty-three years ago today, Rick and Debbie Wheaton became my parents, and as long as I can remember, I've stayed up until at least midnight on July 28th, so I could watch the calendar turn, and commemorate the happy occasion by running around my lawn in my boxers, hollering out "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!"

However, now that I am the distinguished age of 33, I felt a more appropriate way to mark the passage of time would be to play a Sit-n-Go at PokerStars. I sat into a game just about 11:30, hoping that I'd still be alive at midnight, and I could celebrate with a win.

Sadly, I didn't catch too many good hands, and when I finally pushed I had QTc vs KTo . . . and I didn't improve, so I finished in third place, which is still in the money, and at least I didn't lose to K4o.

I was satisfied to cash, and happy with the way I played it, and I almost went to bed, but then I thought, "Hey! It's my birthday, goddammit! If I want to play another SNG, then that's what I'm going to do." I may have put my little fist on my hip as I said it, but I can't be sure.

I sat into another one, and . . . long story short: I played a great game, caught cards when I needed them, and after a long heads-up battle, I won!

I was so excited, I ran out the front door, and raced around my lawn in my boxers, hollering, "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! I WON AND IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! WOOO!"

Luckily for my neighbors, my birthday only comes once a year.

Comments

What the hell you doing up so late? Isn't it past your bedtime?

HAPPY 33rd Mr. W !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I turned 33 on the 12th, I'm feeling like an old lady. But I still get carded at the 21 and over establishments. Not too many 33 year olds can say that.

Hey, you can go to Dennys and get your free meal today. I did that once.

:) Kelz

young man... go to sleep!.. some of us on this globe are at work already and wishing we were in your timezone!

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!

And well done on your win!

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Wiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiil,
Happy Birthday to you!
...And many mooooooore!

You're right, you owe yourself a Sit-N-Go or two. Have a particularly wonderful day, and then, keep doing that, day after day, after day.

Consider the concept of living your days the way Mr. Raymer suggests we all play poker: be more concerned with, "Did I do the right thing?" instead of internally demanding and being a slave to any particularly fantastic outcome... does that make sense?

Daydream, keep fantastic goals, and remain focused as always on your highest priorities -- all of whom should be in bed at the moment. ;)

Celebratory mojo from the posse!

Happy Birthday, Wil!


Rita Skeeter better shut her mouth before she gets in trouble.

'grats will ^_^

man, if i could run around on my birthday with only my boxers on, i totally would.

however, i think i would be arrested. indecent exposure and all.

damn men! :P

Happy Birthday Wil.

Glad to see it started on a high note!

Lucky for you there wasn't anyone hiding in the bushes while you were running around to pull down your boxers and give you 33 spankings. But that could have made for an interesting night, I suppose...

"A man came out of the bushes and spanked me 33 times! I did not know this man! Aaah!"

Happy birthday, Wil!

Happy birthday!! Hope it's a good one for ya Wil, and by that SNG win I'm thinking it will be.
I just saw Compulsion (you know, the CSI ep Wil was in) the other day (stupid Australian TV wouldn't play it) and it was so cool. And even better: next Friday's movie is Book of Days. How cool is that?
Also, I went to the zoo today. I was in the gift shop and I thought of you when I bought a plush monkey. It's name is Mojo.

Very big Happy Birthday Wil. May there be a very yummy birthday cake in your immediate future.

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Happy Birthday! Hope your day gets better and better.

Congrats on hitting another double digit. It's nice to know you had the maturity to be a kid on your 33rd. Hope I have the gall to do the same when I get there.
Enjoy the day and may fortune shine on your every endeavour.

Happy Birthday Wil! May it be your best one yet!

Happy Birthday! May this be a year of dreams come true for you!

Happy Birthday!
Not only was your birthday mentioned on the radio this morning but you were also part of the "time capsule" trivia question (short version: what year was Stand By Me released?).
Have a great one and thanks for being an inspiration.

Happy Birthday Wil, and congrats on the win! Eat lots of cake, open lots of presents, and have a good time with the fam today! You deserve a great birthday!

happy birthday. its my birthday too. i'm in the midst of putting together my birthday cake. and maybe at some point during the day there will be dancing around in my undies and general jubilation. hope you're having a great birthday too.

Happy Birthday, old man!

Happy Birthday Wil.

I was playing a SNG on PokerStars last night and got busted out in 8th place. I ran head first into a Royal Flush!!!!! It took me 5 minutes to prise my jaw from the floor.

Chris

Congrats, Wil - on both the SNG results, and on reaching the distinguished age of 33. :)

Yo Wil,

Happy Birthday. Have you noticed that all the comments coming in today are throughout the night? Do you think you have worldwide fans that post or insomniacs?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Wil! Keep rockin' as hard as you do. As I make the four-and-a-half-hour long drive to NY today, my friends and I will be singing for you. The whole damned way.

OK, I'll join the chorus. Happy Birthday, Wil, and many more! Congrats on the SNG success - don't spend it all in one place. Unless it's to enter more SNGs, of course.

Celebrate, enjoy, relax, and count your many blessings. Have a fun birthday weekend; you deserve it.

Hey Wil,

Happy Birthday! Don't know if you've seen it, but your picture is on the front page of IMDB.com as the born today boy. Congrats!

Happy birthday, Wil!

You deserve to have all the fun you can handle.

happy birthday, Wil. I hope it's a wonderful one.

Happy Birthday Wil!

Have a good one!

Happy B'day, Big Guy!

Happy Birthday Wil.

Enjoy the day. Enjoy your life. Enjoy your cake.

Happy Birthday Wil! Hope you have a great day!

Happy 33rd, Wil! Glad I've got a couple years before I hit that 30-mark.

Of course, I saw in the 'celebrity birthday list' today that you share a birthday with the immortal Geddy Lee...they put his picture up instead of yours, though... It's hard to compete with Rush! :)

On the occasion of your birthday, Mr. Wheaton, I hereby post my first comment in your blog, after spending the last 3 weeks reading it instead of working. Hope it's your best one yet!

Happiest of Birthdays Wil!

Happy birthday dude.

Hey, at least you kept the boxers on and didn't celebrate in your BIRTHDAY SUIT!

Happy Birthday, Wil!

I think I missed it.

So, a very happy belated birthday. Living opposite an all-boys' school, I don't think their parents would take to it too kindly if I ran out onto my front lawn in my undies and hollered.

I think I'll try it.

Have a Happy Day Wil!

Happy birthday Wil. I'm 3 years and 81 days behind you so that it's good that you're going ahead and paving the way for me. Have oodles of fun and all my friends and family send you their best regards (or they wouldn't be my friends and family) :P

Daniel

Hippo birdie two ewe,
Hippo birdie two ewe!
Hippo birdie deer WIL!
Hippo birdie two ewe!

May you party like an animal on your birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Wil, have a great birthday, followed by a wonderful year until the next one. 33? Ah, still a whelp.

You and NASA share a birthday.

I hope nothing falls off your cake.

Happy thirty-third birthday! I did not do much for my thirty-third but I *did* decide to have a special party later in the year. I celebrated my 33 1/3 "for the record."

Yes, I know. That's awful, but how often does a person get to celebrate a birthday *and* make a pun like that in one fell swoop?

Might I suggest that you do the same? It really could be a blast, especially since we both belong to one of the final generations where the knowledge of turntable speeds is widespread. ^_^

Happy Birthday Wil. Hope you have a great day :).

In relation (somewhat) to your blooper reel post, I found a bunch of behind the scenes pictures from the first season. You were in a few. It looked like so much fun.

Happy Birthay Wil!

I will be turning 33 in Nov so try it out for me and tell me what you think. I really haven't felt any older since I turned 21. Hope you don't feel any older either! Did you get any cool gifts?

Again HAPPY BIRTHDAY and Many More!

:) Michaela

I'm just some stranger who's been reading your blog and sometimes wish I were your neighbor. You seem like someone I could really enjoy being around.

Thanks for writing, and sharing your life with the rest of us.

Oh, and duh -- Happy Birthday!

Happy B-day, my man! I hit imdb.com today and your mug was up on the front page, fyi. :) Have a great one.

Happy Birthday, Wil!

Happy Birthday, Wil! Here's hoping that the day will bring at least 33 good surprises, if not more! Enjoy the weekend!

Happy birthday - I don't get to read here often but when I was doing show prep this morning and realized it was your birthday, I had to say something. Glad to hear it started off with a bang... er, boxers, lol.

Wil, You are a dork. :) Happy Birthday to a very fun dork.

Happy Birthday, Wil!

However, the geeky thing to do (something I've done since high school) is to look on your birth certificate, figure out the minute you were born, correct for the time zone, and celebrate then. Midnight? Pah!

Happy Birthday Wil. FYI tiggerbone I got the pun and I'm only 23. To be honest, until I saw the line about it being a pun and read it again, it went right over my head.

Just wanted to say Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday!

Also, I check World IQ every day to give my co-workers a little bit of history for the day, and dude, you have a page on World IQ.


Definition of Wil Wheaton
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Wil_Wheaton

Have a happy day!

Hey Wil, have a great birthday!

Happy Birthday and congratulations on the poker win. :)

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Penblwydd Hapus gyda Wiii-iiil
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Have a wuvvly Welsh birthday Wilster.

luv

Foxy :o)

Happy birthday to you AND to my son who turns ONE YEAR OLD today! ;-)

Happy Birthday Wil!
Does Ferris get any cake?

Would you hurry up and blow out the candles so I can jump out of this damn cake???

Very awesome on the win!
and Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Fellow Leo! I hope you have a wonderful, marvelous, prosperous, fantastic year. *big hugs*

--Lori

happy, Happy HAPPY birthday and many many more! Have FUN this day!!
Party on Garth,

Pook

Happy Dirtday, as my cousin's son used to say. Have a piece of cake on me. You can probably use the calories more than I can!

Happy bday Wil!

http://brad.touesnard.com/wp/wp-content/wilwheatoncsi.jpg

/best Wheaton pic evar!

happy birthday baby!!!! Leos ROCK THE PARTY THAT ROCKS THE PARTY! (i would know, i'm one too! b-day in t-minus 12 days).

so go! rock! rock NOW!

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to Big Willie Will Will
Happy Birthday to you

and many more.............

I know, I'm a big dork but whatever. I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Nicole

Happy Happy Birthday Wil!!

happy birthday Wil =]

Happy Birthday Wil! Have a stupendous day!

haha, you beat out stephen dorff on the IMDB birthday list. probably because he was in a britney spears video and immediately lost his cred. note that his only cred comes from being in Blade.

like you arent hearing this 1billion times already, happy bday.

eee ::covers eyes:: Thanks for that visual!

Happy birthday! Have a great day :D

P.S. us July babies ROCK! \m/ Hoo!

You can add me to the many --- Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday Wil!

Happy Birthday Wil! Have a great day :D

Happy belated birthday! :D

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Wil
Happy Birthday to you
and many more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(A fan of yours since 1987 and going strong.)

Happy Birthday, Wil!

I think that everyone should be allowed to run around their yard in their boxers! Thanks for the visual - I will keep that one for a while.

Have a great Birthday :-)

Happy Birthday Wil!

From the Gang in NorCal ;-)

Well, whatdyaknkow??? Wil Wheaton's older than me!

Heh, had to get that in. Happy BDay, Mr. Wheaton.

(P.S. - My birthday is on 8/4/74 so I'm not TOO far behind...)

Cool beans, Wil. Many happy returns.

Next year, instead of your birthday, celebrate your gigasecond - 2^30 seconds past your time of birth. It works out to 8d 13h 37m 4s past your actual 34th birthday/time.

Your...ahem...outdoor celebration is one awesome and hilarious image, Wil (a close second is the little-fist-on-hip).

happy birthday!

Hey Wil,

Happy Birthday, man!

Happy 100001th birthday.

If you were a hobbit, then today you would come of age.

10 PRINT "Happy Birthday, Wil!"
20 GOTO 10

Happy Birthday Wil! Hope you get to spend your day doing whatever the hell trips your trigger!

Huzzah! Happy Birthday, Wil! :D :D

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday! :-)

Happy Birthday Wil, you young buck. And isn't it fortunate that there were no paparazzi involved.

Happy 33rd, Wil! If you get a phone call from some crazed 14 year olds, don't worry, it's us.

Does that sounds really odd?


Goooood.

Love shauny and nikka.

Happy Birthday Wil! Poker is a good way to start your birthday.

Happy birthday to a fellow geek! :D

Hey Wils, my congratulation for being success in living the first third of your life. Happy Birthday, mate. Hope we may see us soon.

happy birthday wil!!!!

Didn't you just turn 30? *squints@you*

Great way to start your birthday, sweetie. Happy birthday! And remember that as long as you're younger than I am, you're still a baby.

* hugs *

Happy Birthday to you and me, Wil! Yep. it's you, me, Mussolini and Peter Jennings on the 29th. I hit my 37th today (groan), so I am now officially "pushing 40."

By the way, Anchor Steam is Ok, but Pete's Wicked Ale and Fat Tire are better, IMHO. :)

http://www.imdb.com/

check it out man, you are FRONT page on IMDB.

Mazel Tov on tye birthday, as well as the poker win. :)

Why can't you be my neighbor? My neighbors have 8 cars that they park all over the street and an annoying jack russel that barks 24/7.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Uncle Willie. I'm a long time reader of your blog and super fan from your TNG days. I felt obligated to say Happy Birthday.

:)

Happy birthday, Wil! Hope 33 is a great year for you!

Happy birthday Wil! After checking out WWDN this morning, I was so phyched when I went to imdb and saw you listed as the birthday for today. Yay for you! And congrats on the poker win!

ps - I once ran around the yard in just my undies, screaming my head off, but not because it was my birthday, rather because as I pulled into my driveway, I'd found a bee in my panties. And this was in the middle of the afternoon. Maybe our neighbors should start some sort of support group.

Party on Wil.

How cute are you? Happy Birthday sweet.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have fun today.

Happy B-Day Wil! I just finished your audio book and it was great! Keep up the good work.

Oh yeeeaaaahh, if it's your birthday, that means it's mine. Almost forgot. :D And yes, I'm 33 too. Maybe it'll be a lucky year, one can hope ;)

Happy Birthday, Wil. You rule.

Your pal,
Sunflower

I can just imagine your neighbors wondering why someone in StarTrek underwear is dancing around outside. But I suspect that they get that a lot. ;]

Hey Wil,
Was just on IMDB.com and you were on the front page today for birthdays! HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNGSTER! have a smashing day!!!

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y, W I L ! ! ! ! ! Have a good one. ;)

Happy Birthday Wil.
Keep your stick on the ice.

Anton

Happy happy birthday, happy happy day!


Have a wonderful and joy-filled day!

Whoohoo! IMDB!

Have a great day, Wil.

HAPPY BDAY Wil! GJ on the game :)

Hey Wil,

You're the first b-day pic on IMDB today!

Happy Birthday!

Cheers,

Liz

Hey Wil,
Happy birthday! I hope that your day continues to be a great one!

Best Wishes!
~Sonja

Whil you ever consider doing a podcast? I bet you'd have a HUGE listener base...

Well... I am glad I am not your neighbor... I would have to come outside and hurt you... given I go to work at 4am...

Some of us have to keep the world supplied with Lattes and frappicinos....

Welcome to the 33 club....>grin
Enjoy!lol

Hey Wil,

Avid reader, 1st time commenter.

Just had to wish you a Happy Mutual Birthday. It's mine too, though you're a smidge older than myself ;)

(Enter total cheese)

When I was a kid I was a huge fan (still am!) and of course had a massive crush on you and loved to walk around and say we had the same birthday ... lol I still think of you every year and I'm so glad to have discovered your blog through FeedDemon.

Keep up the great work, and just so you know, I've told off the hubby for hating your character on ST - I happened to love you as Wil Crusher! ;)

Tara :)

Feliz cumpleanos, Wil!

I hope the neighbors had a video camera running ;)

Happy Birthday!

Hope you are haveing a great b-day ... it's only 1 time a year u can realy be your shelf..

Happy Birthday Wil!

And congrats on the win last night, you played your ass off.

Hope you are haveing a great b-day ... it's only 1 time a year u can be your shelf..

Quchjaj qoSlIj, Wil! (Someone had to say it.)

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

You're the featured birthday boy on IMdB today too!

I wonder if its a coincedence that I had a dream about you last night?? Don't worry, it wasn't dirty, I can't remember much about it, just that you were in it.

I hope the day brings you much good stuff. Tell Anne to give you a hug for me.

Happy Birthday! Just watch out, you know how those paparazzi nazis are just waiting for unsuspecting birthday people to run around the yard in their underwear...

Happy Birthday Big Guy!!!!

I would pay good money to see my neighbors do that little song and dance!! Keep up the entertainment!!

Sandra

Happy birthday, Wil!

Marianne
--
livejournal.com/~patchworking

I know your birthday was yesterday
but I figure it is never to late to give a happy birthday wish.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAN!!!!
I hope you had a wonderful birthday :)

Hey, Happy Brthday, Wil!
I can smile cause you're 2 years OLDER than me.
So now I don't feel so bad about my birthday a few weeks ago.
:-P

Happy Birthday, Wil. Glad you stuck with the tried and true tradition of a victory lap in your undies. You'd have regretted it if you hadn't.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, have a good one!

I'm going to have to start running around in my underwear on my birthday, it sounds like fun. The neighbors may hate me for it!

Happy birthday, Wil!

You're on the frontpage of the imdb today. :)

hey wil, happy birthday! i didn't know july 29th was your birthday... it's also my son, Nicholas's birthday today. he is ONE YEAR OLD... i still can't believe it. i've read your blog for years, but never commented before (my husband always jokes that you are my secret boyfriend... har har har). anyways, happy 33rd. and a good friend of mine worked with your dad down in socal as a perfusionist, small world eh?

Cool Beans! Happy Birthday Wil!

The Typekey thing wouldn't let me post the past couple of days. Pissed me off. And I really wanted to post on my birthday (which was on the 27th) but I'm too late. But NOT too late for Wil's Big Day! So I'm happy I could get in today. Happy Birthday Wil. Hope your Day isn't as wild as some in the past (I only assume you had wild days) cause at your age you might not be able to handle it the day after. I only mention this cause I discovered the HARD way that at MY age (29) I can't handle it anymore. *sigh* Anyways, hope your day is spent with the people who love you the most. Love ya' and keep on doing that thing you do!

Feliz Cumpleanos, Wil.

Happy Birthday Wil...Never posted here before but have been reading for quite some time and am very addicted to Poker Stars thanks to you, Yeah like its your fault!

Dude. I am totally jealous, because I would love to be able to run around the yard in my boxers at midnight on my birthday.

But alas, I live in Pennsylvania, and my birthday is in November. Pneumonia isn't a birthday gift I'm looking forward to getting...

Happy Birthday, Wil! Congrats on teh victory!

You made teh imdb front page!!! Had to stop by and send my greetings. Have a wonderful day, and happy birthday to you.

Hello Wil,
Happy birthday. Now that the world knows that you run around the yard in your boxers at midnight on your birthday, the papparazi might show up next year. It might be good to send one of the kids out to check the bushes first.
Have a great day!
Lee

Happy Sysadmin Day! Oh wait.. sorry. Happy BIRTHDAY! There we go. :) (it is Sysadmin day though, so be sure to tell your Systems Administrator how much he/she means to you!)

Happy Birthday, Uncle Willie.

Last Week's No. 1 show according to my newspaper was your CSI episode.

Happy birthday, Wil.

Happy 19th birthday. Hey it's always my 19th birthday.

Happy Birthday Will!
Greetings from the Dominican Republic!