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# My Birthday is coming up...
- URL: https://www.sweatyspice.com/my-birthday-is-coming-up/
- Published: 2025-04-12T12:49:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-25T18:04:40.000Z
- Description: And I have been a very very good boy. (but not that good)
- Author: Geoff Anderson

**UPDATE:** alas, my birthday came and went, and this didn't make it in my life. Sad panda.

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Four weeks from today, I hit a milestone. I will complete my sixtieth trip ‘round Sol.

And I have been a very good boy this year. I write a lot, and I don’t charge anything for my writings (and truly, there have been a few who have emailed me saying they would pay), I think I deserve a treat.

I have my eyes on a new guitar. It is something unique. The [Martin D-300](https://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/custom-special-editions/D-300.html?ref=sweatyspice.com) seems like something I should have on my wall…

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/f5/11f5bb9f-30c4-445e-afa3-85a47d260f6e/content/images/2025/07/e860791b-b8fb-459e-976c-64b0bb73ea31_637x1600-jpeg.jpg)

Holee sheeeeeeit. I love this gaudy bauble.

I mean, look at that, it’s a thing of abject beauty. From the website:

So, I have 2,100 subscribers as of this morning, so that is only about $150 each to cover the $300,000 price tag[2](#footnote-2). 

Ok, all joking aside, this is ridiculous, but Martin seems to think that I might buy an exemplar of this 1 of 30 editions[3](#footnote-3).

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1. Ok, like low oxygen copper cables and wooden knobs for your Mackintosh amplifiers that audiophiles buy and swear makes their hifi systems sound better, these [Liquidmetal bridge pins](https://www.martinguitar.com/gear-accessories/parts/bridge-end-pins/18APP0015.html?ref=sweatyspice.com) are $229 woo woo purchases. [↩](#footnote-anchor-1 "Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.")
2. Seriously, do not do this, do not send me money, this is a joke. [↩](#footnote-anchor-2 "Jump back to footnote 2 in the text.")
3. That said, the $750 model 000-Junior I bought last year is a favorite to pull from the wall for a quick break in the workday. [↩](#footnote-anchor-3 "Jump back to footnote 3 in the text.")