{"id":164,"date":"2001-06-05T05:28:50","date_gmt":"2001-06-05T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=164"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:33:39","slug":"catching-up-with-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/06\/05\/catching-up-with-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with old friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3014,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.alaska.net\\\/~royce&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14404,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.koots.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260212031919\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.koots.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 22:04:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 08:20:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 03:03:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 03:03:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Most of the day was spent on getting some more bits ready to go. I went out (on another gorgeous day) and got my car IM&#8217;d and registered so it&#8217;s all legal to sell, as it looks like I&#8217;ve got a buyer. Kinda funny &#8212; the first time in about a year and a half that my car will be legally registered, and I&#8217;m only going to have it for probably a few more days. Ah, well&#8230;so things go in the life of a procrastinator, right? Anyway, got that done, then came home and did some more work on the room, but then got stalled when I realized I&#8217;d run out of boxes to actually put stuff in.<\/p>\n<p>A while after I&#8217;d stalled on the room, James and Marc came over with their usual war cry &#8212; &#8220;We&#8217;re bored!&#8221; As always, none of us could really come up with anything amazingly interesting to do (fairly typical for Anchorage), and ended up just kicking back here at the house for a while, chatting and killing time with Rick, and then later Erika, Deven, and Don when they stopped by. As usual, I got more than my fair share of age-related cracks&#8230;somehow, being the &#8216;old man&#8217; of this group of friends isn&#8217;t really all that good of a deal. Remember when kids were taught to <em>respect<\/em> their elders?<\/p>\n<p>Well, okay, so neither do I, but it sure seems like a good idea sometimes. :)<\/p>\n<p>Since Marc has the misfortune of needing to be up and awake at 3:30am for his job, we eventually all parted ways for the evening. Still stuck in the throes of boredom, James and I decided to head out and find something to do, and started by heading over to James and Marc&#8217;s apartment to let Marc crash out and get a change of shirt for James. When we got out of the apartment, however, I was greeted by the sight of two pranksters sitting in my car going through everything they could find &#8212; the <em>one<\/em> time I don&#8217;t lock my doors&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, it happened to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaska.net\/~royce\/\" title=\"Royce Williams' Norwegian Kickboxing Page\">Royce<\/a> and Rod. They&#8217;d stopped by the same apartment building to talk to another friend, and had noticed my car on their way out. As I&#8217;d left the door unlocked, they decided to have some fun &#8212; until I walked out and caught them red-handed. They decided to join James and I in our quest for &#8216;something to do,&#8217; and the four of us ended up heading out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koots.com\/\" title=\"Chilkoot Charlies\">&#8216;koots<\/a>, having a few drinks, and babbling for a while. Was quite nice &#8212; having known Royce since 4<sup>th<\/sup> grade (and yes, the rumors are true &#8212; Royce&#8217;s dad is responsible for gracing me with the nickname of &#8220;Woody&#8221;), and Rod since high school, I&#8217;d wanted to get a chance to see them both before I left. We spent a couple hours catching up, then took off.<\/p>\n<p>After dropping James off back at his place and talking for a while longer there, I finally decided it was time to take myself home and fall over. So, here I am again, doing my usual late-night post before crashing out. Funny how these keep getting later and later &#8212; I knew that as soon as I wasn&#8217;t working, I&#8217;d start slipping back into my nocturnal ways. Good or bad, I&#8217;m not sure, but I&#8217;m quite definitely a night owl&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here I am again, doing my usual late-night post before crashing out. Funny how these keep getting later and later &mdash; I knew that as soon as I wasn&#8217;t working, I&#8217;d start slipping back into my nocturnal ways. Good or bad, I&#8217;m not sure, but I&#8217;m quite definitely a night owl&hellip;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}