Happy Birthday Brad

Happy Birthday Brad "Blue" Jeffrey (as pictured in Key West toady mode)

To celebrate Brad's 53rd birthday, here are ten things you may or may not know about Brad:

• Brad is a veterinarian who likes to kill animals: Deer, Pheasant, Bear, Duck, Elk and the occasional puppy. He feels that he makes the herd/flock stronger every time he offs one of them and puts it in his belly.
  
• Brad has a son, Mitch, that is the same age as me.
• Brad and I went on our first official "friendship outing" 11 years ago to a Rolling Stones concert that I'd won tickets for on the radio. He was the only person that I knew in the South Lyon area that was old enough to want to go. A guy one section over was drunk enough to fall off of the upper deck at the Silverdome and die.
  
• Brad's shoulder was dislocated and broken a couple of years ago by our friend Will. (Will often hurts people when he gets angry.)
• At one time, Brad had to extract a sheep's head from a frozen pail of water after his wife was not able to euthanize the sheep with a 2x4.
  
• Beyond his new found fame (read here, here and here) at introducing his family to the lost art of cannibalism, Brad was a pretty big deal in Detroit, being the resident TV Vet for the morning show "Good Morning Detroit" and would do regular spots on the show. He's been a vet to the stars, including Mitch Albums dog.
• At one time, Brad knew the location of a large field of government marijuana was grown as Hemp during the war. Rumor has it that he visited it immediately after the birth of one of his children way back when.
• Brad and I both think that Dallas Willard is the smartest living guy in the world when it comes to theology. (This makes Joe Muzzi very angry for some reason).
  
• Brad has a spermatic testicle, which means a big 'ol growth on his nut.
• Although my wife disagrees, Brad is a pretty good source of medical information even though he's not a people doctor. I go to him for advice before I go to my doctor with most medical questions, and occasionally take the antibiotic or other drug on the side from him that may cure what ails me.
  
• Brad is one of the wisest men most generous and humble men I know and one of my closest friends Everyone needs a Brad in their life that when the world goes to crap, Brad has either just the right words of advice, encouragement or ability to tell you that he has no clue what to do. Either way he will stand beside you come hell or high water.

Brad is very, very old and likely close to death. Will and I have dibs on much of his stuff and will miss him when he passes on.