Today he'd get a phone call, text messages (with pics), a tweet, retweets,
multiple emails and Facebook updates and possibly a live video stream of the
blessed event. : )

Cya,
Robert
On Mar 4, 2011 9:11 AM, "David Beierl" <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Y'all are very sweet. I am as it happens still twenty five hours and
> thirty one minutes short of sexegenarianism, but I appreciate the
> sentiments. As of tomorrow 1252 EST (I was born in the former Naval
> Hospital, now condominia, in Chelsea Mass; so the time zone is the
> same as on the birth certificate) you may expect crotchety
> behavior. And may I say that I'm entitled - below I quote the night
> letter (wouldn't waste a telegram) the Navy sent my father all of two
> miles away in Charlestown Shipyard. I seem to have mislaid it, so
> I'll paraphrase:
>
> TO: LT PETER G BEIERL, USS [I forget - a destroyer]
> FROM: NAVY DEPARTMENT
>
> FRANCES E BEIERL DELIVERED OF YOUR CHILD USNH CHELSEA MASS AT 1252
> THIS DAY 5 MARCH 1951 STOP. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DOING WELL STOP. ENDS.
>
> Yours,
> David
> ps - Dad had already heard from the neighbor, so he was a mite
> confused as well.