A Visit From the Basefinder

[fivecats]

Scott (aka basefinder)
April 2006 Raleigh, NC
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Scott (aka basefinder) and I first met in a book discussion group at the local library called CRABS (Children Raving About Books) when we were probably in fourth or fifth grade.  After two or three years his father, an Air Force man, was reassigned to Satellite Beach, Florida and Scott moved.

We kept in touch via letters for years.  In fact, Scott was the person who I started honing my letter writing habits with.  (I still remember bits and pieces of some of those early letters.  Really dreadful things)  Somewhere in the late 70s or early 80s we lost touch, only to find each other again somewhere along the way.  (Um, Scott, feel free to fill in the details)

The last time we saw each other was about 15 years ago -- about the time some of the pictures in his avatars were taken.  He was pulling Temporary Duty with the Air Force in Virginia and we met in the hotel's bar and talked for several hours.  Apparently I was my typical snobbish bore, giving him grief for his musical tastes (I'll still shake my head at the disco.  I mean, c'mon...) and being my typical twenty-something opininated self.  Still, Scott was willing to put up with me.

Somewhere along the line a few years ago we hooked up again, thanks in part to the interweb.  I told him about my lj and he was interested enough to finally start his own. 

We spent this past Saturday together, feasting on homemade waffles, fruit and scrambled-up eggs for breakfast and spaghetti (with eggplant parmesian for us veggies) for dinner. 

All in all, 'twas a very nice day.

And, as an added bonus for our mutual lj friend carolune, there's an additional photo to be seen by

Late in the afternoon we took a walk around the neighborhood just to get out and talk some.  Along the way Scott noticed this mailbox banner.

"That's a banner for carolune!" he said, adding, "I don't think she'd like it very much."

So, of course, I had to take a picture of it and post it for you.  I mean, two guys, half a world away, talking about you due to a mailbox banner?  It just wouldn't be right not to mention it along with the photo.




Birds Welcome (for carolune)
April 2006 Raleigh, NC
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I didn't think you'd like it, either.



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Comments

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

wow, that is a wonderfully long friendship! :-)

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

I've been blessed with a number of very long friendships. I'm playing Pente (www.pente.net), a few moves a day, with a friend I've known since second grade.

(He's someone Scott knows, too!)

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[basefinder.livejournal.com]

Geez, what happened to the good looking guy sitting to my right?

Yeah, we *would* do the photos at dusk, when I'd been up since 03:30, and we'd been racewalking through the neighborhood after eating way too much good food. No wonder I look tired and bloated in addition to old and out of shape. ;-)

I think I found you in the eighties by contacting your parents. Luckily they still lived at the same address, so they pointed me to wherever you were (somewhere up north) at the time.

The most recent reunion, in 2003, (stop me if I'm incorrect) was a result of you Googling a favorite illustrator of ours, Charles Geer, and one of the few places on the web he is mentioned is... my web site.

And the "Birds Welcome" banner looked nice and cutesie... until we got close enough to make out the image of the cat!

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

"Geez, what happened to the good looking guy sitting to my right?" seems like we are all like Oliver saying "Please Sir, can I have some more".....ie.(photo)..

Great to see you two mates catch up again.

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

Believe me, there isn't much to see here. :-)

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[fivecats.livejournal.com]

Don't know about any "good looking guy" to your right. Some judicious editing took care of almost all of me, on the other hand -- a tiny sliver of my sleeve still exists at the edge of the image.

And that was racewalking? Sorry. It was really just our normal pace around the neighborhood.

The filled in details all sound right to me. Good to know one of us has some memory cells left.

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[velvetink.livejournal.com]

:) I am really glad you two got together - old friendships can be the best.
(& hey what is wrong with disco????)

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

"(& hey what is wrong with disco????)"

Oh, please. Don't get me started.

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[basefinder.livejournal.com]

Disco rules!!!

:-)

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

Only in some Nightmare Disco Music Water Torture H3ll where I'd be sent to pay for the sins of this life.

(Disco...honestly...)

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[basefinder.livejournal.com]

So...

*disco music in background*

That will be you over in the corner, sulking, while Ms. Velvet and I are enjoying the music?

Hehe!!

:-)

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

I love my cat, Ani, dearly. I also like the birds in the area -- and that's why she wears a collar with a bell.

LJ does have this way of making the world smaller. Now, if we could only travel around in that small world to actually meet each other.

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[basefinder.livejournal.com]

Airlines should offer a discounted LJ Friends Fare.