So after making Kim extremely nervous when I led her thru resetting her IPhone she took a snappy photo of us sitting in the stands at the ACC Championship game. As i posted before, i wasnt sure if the time and money spent on the actual game would be worth it, but it was... and even more valuable was time spent just talking and catching up and ... talking. The game was fun in that it was a history type gig. While you like to assume that Clemson will be back and win ACC titles next year, etc. I can honestly say that in 1991 i thought it was just sorta a given that we win the ACC and go to one of those bowls like the Gator Bowl or something... little did I know that when they last one that year, it would be 20 years before it happened again.. and who knows, it might be another 20 years before another title. So it was funny to see the oranges being tossed from the upper deck. A little dangerous.. but funny. And seeing the VaTech fans who were so boisterous at the beginning filling out of the stadium in the middle of the 3rd quarter was humorous, considering how much it must have cost them to come into town, much less purchase tickets....
..anywho, as i alluded to above, it was great to talk to a friend and touch base for a while in person. While circumstances have definitely made her life different than the path she thought she would go, I am happy that she seems to be doing well with the resources she has now. I always love it (and find it interesting) when I can talk to someone I consider a peer without the kids around for a while. Even though the conversation circles around our kids, it is refreshing to still be able to have "adult" conversation without then fluttering about, even if it is only for one evening. I have said before that I sometimes go days without any sorta real conversation as the work environment discourages that sorta stuff and my stupid schedule makes it so everone is asleep when I get home and only have brief moments in morning as everyone is off to school. But it is what it is, i suppose. And as I slowly figure out how to see/talk to old friends/peers i hope we will be able to see our respective families more often...