Renew!

Well, it looks like the time has come for me to step into the carousel.
While I am entering my 30th year on planet earth, WWDN isn’t even officially 1 year old, although technically I had the old, lame website up at this time last year…craziness.
My “My Yahoo!” page says, “Happy Birthday, TVsWilWheaton!” and when I click it, it takes me to this page. Check out who’s number 3 on the celebrity birthday list! This made me giddy with excitement last year, and it did it again this year. 🙂
Since it’s my birthday, I think I’ll start out the celebration by posting 7 things I’m grateful for on my birthday:

  1. In 30 years, I have never had a serious threat to my health, safety or general well-being.
  2. Anne.
  3. Just for grins one day, I put together a BBS for this site. It’s become one of the most wonderful communities that I’ve ever seen on the Internet…and the people who hang out there rarely talk about me…it’s all about them, and the virtual family that they have become.
  4. Batman. This has nothing to do with my birthday, really…I just really like Batman. Especially Dark Knight Returns Batman.
  5. Volkswagen. Without VW, I may never have been concieved.
  6. I’m not afraid to cry in front of anyone.
  7. Even though I kept her up most of last night with my “goddamned snoring,” my wife has made a valiant effort to stay up with me until midnight, to tell me “Happy Birthday.” She’s currently asleep on the floor cuddling the dog.

Finally, I am amazed and grateful that people even give a shit about how I’m doing, and what I’m doing, and take the time to make things like this:

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Thank you to everyone who sent me this image, and the cool site that posted it, and thank you to the scores of WWDN readers who have sent birthday wishes, especially those of you who have been visiting this lame website since it began.
An extra-special thank you is due to the Monkeys in the Soapbox. You guys RAWK, and you know why.

RENEW!! RENEW!!

Update at 09:27AM:
The kids in Farkistan are even doing a photoshop for my birthday! It just keeps getting better!

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225 thoughts on “Renew!”

  2. yay! First!
    Happy birthday Wil Wheaton!
    just turned 30 myself – it’s not that bad, trust me…

  3. crap! second! looking immature and not even getting it right.
    thanks for a cool year of witty, interesting, insightful blogs. Though me personally, I can’t wait till it’s winter in california, so we selfishly can read more. You’re creating a monster here, Mr Wheaton – a monkey on your back.
    now all I want is a ticket to LA, so I can come see some of your live stuff.

  4. I know a song called “Turning 30” but I will spare you and not ‘sing’ it. Besides, you are already 30! So I wish you a heartfelt happy birthday…all the best…

  5. THERE IS NOOOOO SANCTUARY!!!
    I love that damn movie…damn, I’m a geek.
    Happy 30th Birthday Wil. Your 30’s take a bit to get use to, but you’ll learn to love em just as much as your way cool 20’s.

  6. happy birthday wil!
    my brother, a will himself, turns 20 today. he’ll get a kick out of knowing that he and “gordy” share the same birthday.

  7. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WIL!!
    thanks forkeeping us all smilin with your great site. keep up the good work!

  9. Happy Birthday Wil. May you find more happiness, love, and laughter as you enter a new stage in your life. May things only get better, brighter and even more wonderful. And may you never look with sadness on your life, but only joy.
    Happy Birthday.

  11. Happy Birthday, Wil! Thanks for sharing so much with us all and for creating a thoughtful community where people can share their ideas and convictions with caring and respect for eachother.
    The way you’re headed, being thirty will be something you’ll value rather than lament.
    Rob

  14. Happy Birthday, Wil! I hope you have a splendid day. Don’t worry, 30 isn’t all bad. It’s 31 that’s the killer! 😉
    And, yes, I do know for a fact. I will be 32 in November. 🙂

  15. ‘Gratz on making 30, Wil.
    It’s a little thing, but talk to your car insurance agent — being an old guy gets you a break on the insurance costs.

  18. Many Happy returns Uncle Willy!
    Hope you have a great day.
    Your loyal monkey posse are sending you some SERIOUS good mojo today so enjoy it!

  19. Happy Birthday, Wil! Thanks for always putting a smile on my face, especially when I need one most. 🙂

  22. Happy birthday Wil!
    I know that everyone else that visits will agree, Here’s to 30 more.

  24. Hey, for once I’m here early, before there’s 150 some odd posts.
    fedeh!
    Happy Birthday Wil!
    I hope you have a special day this day and that it’s filled with fun time, great memories, and, most importantly, really cool presents.
    Today is officially a no sock day.
    No that doesn’t mean you can go around leaving your smellies uncovered. It means that no one can give you socks, underwear or other equally lame pieces of clothing. They all have to be uber cool.
    Like a flak jacket or something.
    straight jacket?
    *drools*
    I should go now.

  25. Happy birthday Wil!
    I hope you will keep acting and I hope I can see you in the new Star Trek film.
    Best wishes for next year!

  26. Anyone pick up on the irony that Wil’s birthday is also the same as NASA’s?
    From the birthday page that Wil linked to in his blog entry:
    “In 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.”

  27. Wil..
    I see that Stephen Dorff is a year younger..
    with the same bday..
    a vw? and you drive ???
    lets see.. your 30
    married, with 2 kids..1 dog..
    and your an; actor, writer, web site developer
    and your still a fan with the people…
    yup… life is going great!
    have a great day Wil & Anne..
    now.. Get to BED!!
    what fun it is to be a Leo…

  29. Happy Birthday wil
    There’s nothing more attractive than a man who loves his wife.
    Stay young.
    30….. *sigh*

  31. Wil, 30 is a great age! I’m at 39, about to do the big four-oh, and I feel like I’m twenty (but with the maturity one expects with such an age—I think—I still laugh at fart jokes). My relationship with my kids is phenomenially wonderful (son 10, daughter 13), and if anything, they keep my perspective clear on the world around me (and keep me watching cartoons). Happy birthday, and enjoy the next fifty or sixty! They will all be absolutely wonderful!

  32. Hey Wil….Happy Birthday
    I remember my 30th……I was 30 at the time.
    Anyway, it was fun because I went to the Canadian National Exhibition or the CNE for the day. Its an annual event in my hometown and I looked forward to it every year when I was growing up. Once on my tenth birthday my dad asked me if I wanted a party or the 5 dollar bill he was holding….I took the cash and went to the CNE. Hey 5 dollars could do you the whole day there since every year the school would give you one free pass to the EX which I saved for my birthday and it only cost 10 cents each way for the streetcar so that would leave me $4.80 cents to blow. The had a food building that actually gave FREE samples so food was not a problem and the rides were only a quarter back then. Ahh the memories…..but anyway this is your birthday so have a good one and many more.

  33. I always pop by this site when I need a smile and tonight I get to smile extra and send birthday wishes. What fantabulous timing!
    So HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
    Have a good one and make a point to do a random birthday dance of joy at least once today. Or.. at least something equally silly and somehow amusingly rewarding.

  34. Happy Birthday big guy! Hope the next 30 years brings even more good things for you … thanks for sharing your life with the rest of us!

  35. Happy Birthday Wil,
    Stumbled into your site a few weeks back wondering what you were up to. Great site. Makes me laugh, and think.
    30 is a sneeze. Enjoy.
    And in honor of your birthday – and to help a good cause – I donated this morning and pushed you over your initial goal on the Breast Cancer Walk. You walk – I’ll donate.
    Dave

  36. WHOOHOO! In honour of this most stupendous occasion, I shall make the ultimate sacrifice: stay home from work on a Monday and drink to your health all freakin’ day long!
    Many happy returns, mate!

  38. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WIL!
    Long time time reader, first time writer – I thought today would be the ideal day to write something. So happy birthday man.
    How’s Cadet Crusher? Have you been in touch since you cruelly shipped him off? Oh, and that WIl Wheaton’s Run is tres cool.
    Neil

  39. Renew! Renew!
    Oh, and I don’t trust you anymore. That’s okay. I haven’t trusted myself for eight years.
    Welcome to the Dark Side of Thirty, Beyond the Rim of Youth.
    And Happy Birthday. 🙂

  40. I used to check your site out on a regular basis and for some reason just stopped. I also noticed your birthday on Yahoo! and decided to see what you had been up to.
    Happy birthday, Wil, and I wish you only the best this year and years to come.

  41. Happy birthday, Wil! Since I’ll turn 30 myself in a little less than a year, I can totally relate to your holy-crap-I’m-gonna-be-30 musings. You’ve got a lot to be proud of in your three decade “Wil Wheaton’s Run” 🙂 and the sense to be thankful for it. Congrats, and keep writing!

  42. Happy Birthday, Wil!
    Welcome to Club 30, the good days are over now 😉
    Have a great day!
    -Oliver

  45. Hi Wil,
    Have a very cool birthday! and remember only 10 years now till you are 40.
    P.S Sorry about the last comment but someone did that to me on my 21st about my 30th just felt I had to share.

  46. hey everybody! here are a few of the many that share Wil’s birthday;
    Others born this day; July 29;
    Homer, II; 1918
    Clara Bow; 1905
    George Burns, III; 1949
    Elizabeth Dole; 1936
    Stephen Dorff; 1973
    Benito Mussolini; 1883
    Rodney Allen Rippy; 1968
    Thelma Todd; 1906

  47. Happy birthday!! the BIG 30!! 5 more years and you wont be able to get it up!! WELCOME TO MIDLIFE!!

  48. Hi Wil-
    I wasn’t online during the weekend, but I want to belatedly wish you a very Happy Birthday. I turned 30 on May 7, so I know exactly how you’re feeling! 🙂 I can’t believe “the boy” is all grown up! (My hubby, our friend, and I, who gather every week to watch ST:TNG on DVD can’t help but laugh every time, in the early episodes, when someone refers to Wesley, as though he’s not standing right there, as “the boy”. Check it out-you’ll see what I mean. It just cracks us up.) Anyway, congrats to your brother, too, on his marriage. Last but not least, I clicked on the link to your Aunt Val- very touching. She seemed like a great lady. That’s all for now!
    Love, Alicia
    http://www.thewagband.com

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