And I’m one day older
I turned 40 this past Saturday. My mom threw me a birthday party and, as a surprise, managed to get my best friend from high school to come. It kind of blew my mind.
Tom and I played D&D and read SF, and 22 years later, he's still playing D&D and reading SF... he's introduced his 14 and 17 year old daughters to the game, too. It was somewhat surreal, having a discussion with the high school senior daughter of my best friend from high school about whether 3.5 or 4E was the better game. :)
I'd only seen Tom once since high school, and that was about 17 years ago when he was visiting town briefly. He was living in Colorado at the time, and quite too far to visit except on special occasions. Now he's living just a couple hours away... to far for a weekly game, but close enough that we could justify getting together a few times a year.