Thanks for the well-wishes everyone!
With regards to "Birthday Haul", my lovely wife got me a copy of Helm's Deep and Uruk-Hai army, and I also got a $30 TLG gift card from my mom and a "I <3 Lego" t-shirt from my sis-in-law in TX.
A guy in my LUG gave me some LBley micro-figs for statues, and also a chrome storm trooper, which was very cool!
Lastly, sort of as a B-day gift to myself, I participated in mega-drafting Helm's Deep (so, my 3rd copy of that set) with 3 other people in my LUG, and walked away with some great parts, as well as all of the Haldir and Uruk Hai torsos and legs, and all 4 complete berserker figs, so it was a great birthday weekend for me
