Posted by: arenmaeir | March 17, 2008

A chronological note

For the few of you who do not yet know, tomorrow, March 18th, is my 50th birthday! As of tomorrow, I am officially “over the hill”!

In addition to the absolutely fantastic surprise b-day party that my wife made for me on Saturday night, today, past and present members of the Safi team got together in the Safi lab to have a toast for by b-day, AND, present me with the Table of Contents of a volume that was put together to celebrate the occassion, entitled “Tell it in Gath,” with articles (mostly, but not only, on aspects related to Safi and/or the Philistines) written by 20 people who are connected with the Safi project, which hopefully will be published in the not-to-distant future.
What a fantastic b-day present!


Here’s a picture of me holding the cover and table of contents that were presented to me

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Thanks to you all!

Aren

Posted in Lab, Miscellaneous, general blog stuff

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Well happy birthday!!! And please do let us know when and where the volume can be acquired!

By: Jim on March 17, 2008
at 10:38 pm

[...] current events — Jim @ 4:40 pm Tomorrow (which happens sooner in Israel than it does here), Aren turns 50.  That’s half a century!  Happy Birthday, [...]

By: A Very Happy Birthday To Aren Maeir « Dr Jim West on March 17, 2008
at 10:40 pm

Jim,
I will inform you all when it appears, but, having some experience in the amount of time required to get such things out, I would not hold your breath on this one …

Aren

By: arenmaeir on March 17, 2008
at 10:43 pm

Very happy birthday to you! Hills and being over them is something to debate, however. It seems fifty is the new forty these days, so you’re just hitting your prime!

By: Kevin P. Edgecomb on March 17, 2008
at 11:35 pm

I’m sure you’ll understand the meaning of the Italian «Buon compleanno!»

:)

By: Antonio Lombatti on March 18, 2008
at 12:46 am

Thanks to all of you who sent me best wishes, online or by email.

Aren

By: arenmaeir on March 18, 2008
at 8:05 am

Many happy returns Aren!!!

By: Zachi Zweig on March 18, 2008
at 8:38 am

Can’t wait to see how your blog evolves over the next 50 years! A big huge ROYAL congratulations to you! That’s a terrific picture of you with the book! I’m very happy for you! The world’s such a better place with people like you living in it!

By: G.M. Grena on March 19, 2008
at 5:51 am

Congratulations. In Dutch we say: you have seen Abraham!

By: JPvdGiessen on March 19, 2008
at 10:57 pm

Why is this related to Abraham?
Aren

By: arenmaeir on March 20, 2008
at 12:20 pm

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