Is it Strange to visit someone you've never met.

2007 was a wonderful time. Yea, 2007 was the time of Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare. Not only was the story great, but playing online opened a new door for people, I myself made some friends along the way. This is where I am stumped right now. Let me give you some brief history for my first Blog. While playing this addicting competitive game we know and love, I ran into a gentleman running all over the map like a maniac. The map was wet work, known for its dark and raining environment, making it hard to hear the enemy coming behind you. The enemy being another playing on the end of an I.P. address and a controller. This particular game however, Lets just say my k/d was suffering. which I also knew nothing about k/d at the time was being disintegrated by a gamer tag at the time known as PushDatWeight. Now known as Betty Crock3r (that I'll save for another time). After being destroyed by this clown, he began to talk to me and added me to his friends list. We started playing so much that we swapped phone numbers to set up play times. Insane? but FUN!!! This gamer relationship became a friendship that has gone up until this very day. Whom I am texting with as I write this. Texts, Phone calls, Skypes, FaceTimes, pictures, Videos have been shared between us for 4.5 years now. The funny thing is we have never met each other, and that's where the question as well as the title comes into play. Is is Strange though? Seriously.

After this 4.5 year relationship I am finally going to meet this clown that I have been able to compare as a very close friend. 4.5 years. That's a long time to have a friendship and not actually have a face to face meeting with the person. He knows a lot about me, I know a lot about him and we have never met. Michigan from New york isn't a bad drive either, but this whole situation has me confused at the same time. What if we meet and cant stand each other? Not too mention that we both have egos the size of California. Either way though I am happy to call this guy a friend. he has steered me in a direction in my life that I may not have ever gone before. He has shown me what is better technology than what I had before. Like when I had a Blackberry, he explained why the iPhone was better. I got an iPhone. He showed me the benefits of OSX opposed to Windows. I have an iMac. Which all of these cards falling into place peeked my interest into knowing what makes all this stuff work. I have always loved technology, but being married young and a high school drop out hasnt made life easy to just sit down and play with this stuff like I do now. I am now pursuing a degree in Computer Information Systems. Taking me out of my Blue Collar environment to a tech world has been exciting to say the least. Always loving tech, and now being able to play with it everyday is great, And all of this may have never happened if he didnt get in my head and say that there is better out there and lets make it do what you want it to do. Jailbreaking was where the tech wheels started grinding. The process of doing something illegal at the time and pirating apps was so fascinating. And lets not get confused with this 45 second jailbreaking bullshit, I mean the gritty stuff, when Cydia was just a raindrop in the community. Keith pushed me to this, made me learn and want more out of my tech life. Yes, 4.5 years without meeting the person that made me want to strive for more. 

All I can say is that meeting him finally is going to be interesting, and hopefully will be the start of a yearly thing. Who knows, maybe we will kill each other in a blaze of glory, maybe we will just play Call of Duty, maybe we will become even better friends then we already are. Either way I'm looking forward to it. Wish me luck, and have a good day. You deserve it.


~This is my first official blog~ 
Thanks for stopping by,
Luke