I feel very lucky. I have a great best friend. His name is Miguel, but he prefers being called Mic or Mickey. Mic and I have been friends since the third grade. That’s along time when you consider we are 50+ years old.

We’ve been through a lot together. School, rock concerts, weekends at the beach, girls, wives, kids, the loss of close friends, life! It’s funny because when we hang out, I remember stuff from High School like it was yesterday. In this new life of adulthood and responsibility, it’s easy to forget to have fun and remember what good there is.

It feels really good to be able to laugh and re-live the ‘glory days’ even though there wasn’t a lot of glory, we just didn’t know any better. We lived for fun, adventure, love, friends and good times. I understand we can’t do that all the time, but I see so many adults who have given up all that for the sake of being grown up and ‘mature’.

I’m one of those people. I forgot to have fun, even how to have fun. Luckily, that fire has been rekindled and I’m back living in the world of people and possibilities. It feels a lot better.

Anyway, back to Mic and what a great friend he is. (I’m not using his full name out of respect, he’s not too comfortable with being seen on the net.) I’ve experienced some difficulties recently. The aftermath of a bad relationship and the financial fall out from it. I was really desperate, I needed help moving, and called him to see if he could give me a hand. Mickey came through in a big way. Took a few days off from work to help me pack and move. I also needed some help on a project I was working on, he took some more time off work to help. And he continues to help out. I’ve seen him almost every weekend for the past two months. It’s like being kids again.

Mic is one lof those guys who does what ever it takes. He seems to have unlimited energy, works two jobs to send his kids to private school, volunteers at the school, and still makes time to help his friends and others that are having some of lifes challenges.

So I have to add Mic to my list of hero’s. A true friend. Boy, am I lucky!

I have to say I find it incredible and amazing that people are able to think in such abstract ways. While setting up this blog, I put in a lot of work, effort, research, time, frustration and some fun too. But what I mostly did was realize that there is so much more than meets the eye when it comes to blogs, code, and the geeks (I say that with total admiration) who create all this wonderful technology for us ‘regular people’.

Not to say that I am a complete maroon (lol) about technology, I seem to know more than most of the people I know, but the more I know the more I know I don’t know jack!

So thank you to everyone who thinks this stuff up, writes the code, creates the widget and plugins and generally make cool stuff to play with.