Full Circle

Had fun at Reid's and Luisa's place yesterday; it was a gathering in honour of a visit from Andrew and Jenny. Andrew's been a friend since our university days, and he now works on the iPhone development team at Apple.

Not surprisingly, there was a lot of iPhone bonding and geektalk during the evening. Thanks to Craig for taking the photo below:



In the photo below, Luisa is playing (or rather, she's just lost :-) a two-player game of iPhone Vector Pong with Jeff.

I still remember the original game of Pong, and how impressed I was back then. It seemed only appropriate that I'd be playing again over 30 years later, but on an 3G iPhone instead of my family's Radio Shack TRS-80.



A survey question: What was the very first computer game YOU ever played?

I never had a group of close friends until I got to university. Back in grade and high school I was somewhat of a loner, with only a few good friendships like my friend Cathy.



At the University of Toronto, I was delighted to find people as geeknerdy as me. I ended up marrying one, and some of us still hang out. Luisa remains one of my closest friends.



Our circle has grown with friends of friends as well as the members of the next generation. Some of the kids even play D&D together, just like our old group used to.




I feel pretty lucky to have a group of friends like this, whose bond continues to hold us together through some of us having kids, marriages and divorces, life crises. We may not see each other as often but whenever we get together, the comfort and caring are still there.



Thanks so much to Luisa and Reid for giving some of us the opportunity to get together again!



Working today; I have a Writer's Digest article due tomorrow. It's always a challenge trying to research and write a year summary of the publishing industry when the year still has four months to go (article is published in December in a special annual issue), so I generally end up writing most of it just before the deadline and crossing my fingers that nothing HUGE happens in the industry before the end of the year. :-)

Hope you're all having a great weekend!



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