Tonight I had the double pleasure of getting off from work an hour early and having Edward and Deanna come visit us after the local community festival. Ed and I have been friends since my sophomore year in high school and Deanna is one of my wife’s friends from their own high-school adventures. (They incidentally met through me and my wife and I was the best man in their wedding.)
We spent a good three hours sitting in the living room talking about everything from chronic screw-ups like Lindsay Lohan, fictional supercomputers, and road trips. It was a great evening and it is a shame that in an age filled with technologies that have promised to bring friends closer such as cell phones, email, and social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace, nothing can compete with time spent actually with your friends.
We briefly discussed the idea of a vacation of some sorts in a couple years when the children are old enough to leave behind. I mentioned an interest in seeing the American Southwest, to which Ed, ever thinking the same thing as I, said he wanted to see the Grand Canyon.
God help our wives come July 2009! In the event we are able to pull off such a trip, they will be stuck with two men obscessed with four things: computer technology, spouting random and disconnected movie quotes, road trips, and political and philosophical discussions into the wee hours of the night.
We are married to wonderful women who put up with us.
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