While running a search for a specific incident that I'd written up int this blog, I stumbled across a blog entry that I wrote early in the morning of my birthday last year, titled Life of Joey. It was a quick summary of my life written up as a "laundry list" of events, from birth until the then-present day. Here's a pertinent selection of items:

July 1987
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Best Date Ever 1a. I live the lyrics to AC/DC's most popular song, which is why it's a favourite of mine. You'll eventually read about it.

August 1987
New York, New York, USA
Best Date Ever 1b. Round 2.

November 1992
Best Date Ever 2.

New Year's 1999
A last-minute trip to the Czech Republic to celebrate New Year's 2000 in a castle outside Prague. Had an amazing time at the party, met cute redhead. Foiled an attempted mugging and took redhead on Best Date Ever 3 in the same day.

February 2000
LinuxWorld Expo 2000 in New York City!

Second-best moment: leading a parade of a hundred geeks including CmdrTaco and Hemos from Slashdot down Broadway to the Slashdot/VA Linux party with the accordion, singing The Clash and Fatboy Slim all the way there. End up drinking with Hooters wairesses, who try to convince me to take my date to their restaurant.

Best moment: Best Date Ever 4.

November 5, 2003
You are here.

Looking to have Best Date Ever 5. Any takers?

One of the comments was from someone whom regular readers of this blog may find familiar:

Happy birthday! *smooch*

- The Redhead

A month later, I had my first date with Wendy.

Even funnier, this comment from AKMA:

Happy birthday, Accordion Guy! One of the great gifts of the past year has been getting to know you. But as for Best Date Ever 5, remember that I’m a married man.

To which I replied:

I may need your priestly services as the result of Best Date Ever 5. Whether that needed service is a wedding or an exorcism has yet to be determined.

Oddly enough, I ended up calling on those priestly services less than a year later.

Once again: Wendy -- you're Best Date Ever #5, and the Best of the Best Dates, too!