As he was the last of his close friends to celebrate one, much was made of Jesse’s thirtieth birthday when it rolled around in September. Tanner and Ernie jammed their rooftop balcony with an elaborate party that generated so many sick calls from Jesse’s friends that Mile High Airlines had to cancel three flights that night and two the next morning for lack of crew. With Tanner, he splashed out on a Rodeo Drive shopping spree, and using their airline discount, they hopped aboard a five-night cruise from Long Beach to Acapulco on a ship whose Palace Suite would otherwise have gone empty. “I mean, as long as we’re in L.A…” The suite had a piano in the parlor and a whirlpool spa on the balcony, and Jesse figured if it involved banging away at Heart and Soul then sitting naked with Tanner in t
