Week #8: What have you been up to? ... its been a long time!

On Monday of this week, I was invited to dinner by a good friend of mine, Jan. When I showed up, I realized that he had invited a few other guys including my brother, and a guy that I had not seen for 30+ years. Due to my 52 week blog, I had been meaning to call him in the next few weeks. I wanted to get in touch with someone I had not seen in a long time. I was beat to the punch when I surprisingly saw my old friend David. I told him "I was just about to call you." Which he of course didn't believe. How many people that you have not seen or talked to in 30 years can you get away with the "I was just about to call you" line. We grew up two houses away from each other and hung out all the time. David and I ended up having a great conversation throughout the night. We used to be inseparable best friends when we were young, until we got in a fight around first grade. We never really saw each other again. We talked about the past and realized how silly our fight was (we were fighting over an Intellivision game (called Utopia ... great old school game though)).

I plan on staying in contact with David and we are hopefully going to go out for lunch soon. I had a great time catching up and finding out about his wife, children , and occupation.

When Jan drove me home that night, he kept calling me "Earl". When I explained why I wanted to reconnect with an old friend, he said it sounded like that show "My Name is Earl". So now I have a few friends calling me Earl. Either way, I can cross off : reconnecting with an old friend

from my list.

The photos above is my kindergarten picture with David and I circled. Coincidentally, my wife's picture is above David's in the upper right corner.