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aearwen2Today is the birthday of one of my all-time favorite Internet friends, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jkahane. I met John way back in the Deep Dark Ages of the old email networks, before the Internet really blossomed - back when we used to have to call up the local BBS that was linked to echomail networks that would take days to pass the emails back and forth. We shared (and still do) an appreciation for Babylon 5, and participated in an echomail forum discussing the show as it was being produced - which included commentary and information directly from the Creator/Producer of the show, J. Michael Straczynski.
John was a forum regular, and I began picking on him a bit - and lo and behold, good sport that he is, he picked back! Eventually we exchanged phone numbers, and have been either emailing, phoning, or now communicating through LJ for - I believe he said - almost 20 years. He's my not-quite-official, adopted brother-of-the-heart, even though we've never met face to face.
Here's hoping you have a wonderful day, that your black forest cake and your dram of Bailey's top off the celebration, that you have a thoroughly enjoyable dinner, and that the year to come is filled with good health, good friends, good gaming, and good conventioning.
jkahane. I met John way back in the Deep Dark Ages of the old email networks, before the Internet really blossomed - back when we used to have to call up the local BBS that was linked to echomail networks that would take days to pass the emails back and forth. We shared (and still do) an appreciation for Babylon 5, and participated in an echomail forum discussing the show as it was being produced - which included commentary and information directly from the Creator/Producer of the show, J. Michael Straczynski. John was a forum regular, and I began picking on him a bit - and lo and behold, good sport that he is, he picked back! Eventually we exchanged phone numbers, and have been either emailing, phoning, or now communicating through LJ for - I believe he said - almost 20 years. He's my not-quite-official, adopted brother-of-the-heart, even though we've never met face to face.
Here's hoping you have a wonderful day, that your black forest cake and your dram of Bailey's top off the celebration, that you have a thoroughly enjoyable dinner, and that the year to come is filled with good health, good friends, good gaming, and good conventioning.
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