Thursday, October 03, 2002
Yesterday I had an enjoyable, though unfortunately rushed, lunch with an old friend of mine who I used to work with at Delrina about a decade ago. I was supposed to met him at Reuben's Deli on King at 12:30pm. Insanely bad traffic due to construction in front of City Hall and my panicked mistaking of Adelaide for King meant I was almost half an hour late for my appointment. Ugh.
It was good to see him. At one time we were both doing front line tech support for a legion of beleaguered users of WinFax software, back in the days when faxes were much more prevalent than email.
I hadn't seen him for years, and I had a similar experience to first seeing my friend Bryce again last year after a long absence. Realizing the years had passed, mentally comparing the face in front of me to the much younger man I last remembered seeing. This is how one sees the years passing before you.
What I had realized about Ian R., despite our email correspondence is the oddly parallel career paths we've taken. I didn't know that he'd been part of Symantec Web team after I had left Delrina/Symantec, and that he is now a Webmaster/Web maintainer for Nesbitt Burns. He too has a personal Web site where he dabbles in experimental code and self-expression. Cool. We talked shop for a while of course, though I found his experiences as a Dad of two young children (gee, that sounds familiar) more interesting.
Due to time constraints on the both us, we only had a half hour's chat together, but we vowed to meet again soon.
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