Blast from the past or things thought forgotten

[plural]

Sitting here
minding my own business
writing the previous post
when
my phone rang
I checked the caller id

773

where the hell is that?

checked the name
and that I recognized

you see it goes back a few years
almost six to be exact

I had just moved to Kansas City
and
started a job at
Gateway 2000

support technician

wild and crazy days

I became friends
with another tech
in new hire training

an upstanding (mostly)
fellow
we got along instantly

in my
other life
in Kansas city
I simultaneously
met a girl
with
quick wit
and a
generally unpleasant demeanor

I liked her already...

For several months
they were my closest friends

each belonging to a different
circle of my friends

then one day
by curse of coincidence

the two
whom I adored most
met

and

well

the rest was history

they have been married now
around 4 years

well
as life moves on
I moved to Atlanta
and then to Jackson Mississippi
I moved to Seattle
they got married
they moved to Chicago

I flew out for the wedding
and it was great to see
them both

it is amazing how
even time and distance
does not diminish the fact
that they were
counted amongst
my best friends

as it always did
time and distance
made staying in touch
difficult
and
for the past
two maybe three years I guess
we had been out of touch

until
about an hour ago
my phone rang

apparently
one can find out
a lot more about me
on the Internet
than I knew

but for once
I was glad

so old friends
welcome back
you
were
missed