post the eleventh, 2013

where were you in october 2006? yeah, i know - i couldn't remember either. the topic came up tonight because some folks were talking about going to this one person's house, and i was like, i've never been there, and they were like, what about that 30th birthday party? and it was a party for someone of whom i normally would attend birthdays, if invited, but i didn't attend, and so the question was, where was i. alls i knew was it was something i had to do, for work, and it was out of town. i pondered a while, couldn't remember, put it aside. when i got home i searched my outlook calendar from work (that thing has voluminous history) and there it was, the first weekend in october, 2006. sure enough, i was on business - in western north carolina. and about all i really remember of that trip was that the one other person who wanted to go with me, but couldn't work out the logistics, was dead about three months later, and that just proves that if you want to go to western north carolina, by damn, you should go.