Late Nights, Friends PLUS a Rivas and 50 Year Olds Who Drive Pink Geo Trackers Update...

That may be the longest blog title in the history of blogging, which I believe has a history of...4 years. Dan Rather will be writing a book about it any day now.

I always seem to get these great ideas for blogs at 2am. I'm not sure they are actually great, being that a lot of things thought up at 2am are usually deemed great then but later they just look like hazy thoughts with no real integrity.

On Tuesday, at the hazy thought hour, I had an idea for a blog. I thought about it and was excited about writing it. I jotted a note to myself about it and went to bed. Early the next 'morn I got up and went to work. I remembered my note about the blog and smiled...got ready to type...and...nothing. Nada. I couldn't remember the majority of what I wanted to write.

I knew that I wanted to write about my friends, how I (and they) have changed in the last couple years...but the details were gone. I couldn't remember what had excited me about the entry the night before. I had made some sort of connection in my brain that was gone by the next morning. Crap.

Well, what I did remember was this: First off, I have tremendous friends. All of them. I love that my friends from my different areas of life have often come together and become friends with my other friends. I love that I have a diverse group of friends.

It is funny how our needs in friends change over the years. Early on, our friends are because of geographical convenience. Neighborhood kids or school kids who maybe like the same activity as you. Later on, in Middle School, you learn that a friend is maybe just someone who makes LESS fun of you and is just a little less terrible to you then everyone else. (Middle School sucks!) In high school you make your first real friends and you might have similar interests and you might even make actual connections, but most friendships are based on frivolous things and loose connections.

I don't know how to describe friends in college. You have such a cornucopia of friends, it is hard to know, but it is generally a tossup of EVERYTHING I had mentioned before and the next phase. College is a weird time. Some friends are because of geographical convenience (roommates, neighbors, etc.) people who just are nicer then the rest, people you do activities with, and people who actually have a genuine connection with.

I'm entering this new phase. After College, or AC. I don't want friends anymore who I just joke with. I don't want friends that are just always shallow. I desire substance these days, and I'm glad that I found that just about everyone I was friends with before felt the same way. That made me happy and I became better friends with those people. Great success. Also, I've made a bevy of new friends since college, which surprised me. I was always told that AC I was done making friends and meeting people. I beg to differ. I've met some awesome people since then. People who think and are funny. It has brought out a whole new side of me in the last 30 or so months. Thanks to my friends.

A quick Rivas update: He DIDN'T make the Indians out of spring training. Wow. I was disappointed. Hopefully he will be up at some point during the year though, as he did accept his assignment to AAA Buffalo. Also, I tried ordering a Rivas AAA jersey, because I thought it would be hilarious, but sadly, they do not exist.

Also, a quick Creep Old Guy Who Drinks Milk and Vodka and Drive a Pink Geo Tracker Update. I saw his Geo Tracker at a friend's apartment complex! Augh! Scary! He is following me! It was definitely his. He had weird miniature boxing gloves hainging up in the car...and they were there. It was him. That alone frightened me, but I saw him AGAIN today, back at Super America. I wasn't planning on going inside, but I started to walk towards the entrance, and he was leaving. I swear that he is going to kill me.

Time to go from one job to another!

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