tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post5865665747675683799..comments2008-08-06T17:27:34.538-07:00Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-78793088830539063922008-08-06T17:27:00.000-07:002008-08-06T17:27:00.000-07:00Ché - I do hope I can arrange a trip up <I>soon</I>. We'll have to talk.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-4258829693806591232008-08-05T18:12:00.000-07:002008-08-05T18:12:00.000-07:00I had no idea that when I began reading blogs, that I would find a friend like you.<BR/>I haven't had many people I've clicked with....mostly it's just walking out life with each other for a long time.<BR/>I guess I consider the friendship I have with you to be an amazing gift..please get up here soon? I'm already missing talking to you....Ché Vachonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15721110123682449128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-58642297063838043162008-08-04T18:17:00.001-07:002008-08-04T18:17:00.001-07:00Steven - It's ok, it happens. I was just curious.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-27671591141284481402008-08-04T18:17:00.000-07:002008-08-04T18:17:00.000-07:00Jim - That's cool about your wife and her friends. I think the net can be a good way to meet people...it actually works out sometimes!Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-21579344701420278922008-08-04T16:40:00.000-07:002008-08-04T16:40:00.000-07:00We just lost contact with each other over the years.Wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205347723383170605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-52891820321113244872008-08-04T04:41:00.000-07:002008-08-04T04:41:00.000-07:00My wife Leslie gets together every year (three years running, they're planning their fourth) with a group of friends that all met online. Her oldest (well, longest-running :o) and bestest of the bunch she "met" online over 10 years ago when both were on a list dealing with the issues of having preemie twins.<BR/><BR/>My Mom somehow became friends with a woman online and went and she and Dad went and visited a few years back. I think the biggest hold up there may be that the menfolk did not "click' (which is always an issue with trying to pair up couples as friends - but that's another post, isn't it? :o), but I think Mom and her friend did.<BR/><BR/>I would've said men are different, I have plenty of friends, blah, blah, blah, except they're all now out of state since I moved back to mid-MO. And in the past year and a half I've been blogging it appears I have picked up some cyberfriends, one of whom at least comes into MO once in a while on family business and with whom it is my intent to link up "one of these days".<BR/><BR/>Good post! Good for you and Ché!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02634460171128306060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-78982557722648972902008-08-03T18:35:00.000-07:002008-08-03T18:35:00.000-07:00Barbara - Talking over at <A HREF="http://somethingelsejtp.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-now.html" REL="nofollow">Jon's blog</A>, I said something along the lines of how my online friends are no longer my online friends, they are my friends. You and I have talked about that before. <BR/><BR/>Who lives in Georgia? I'm drawing a blank.<BR/><BR/>So when are you going to cross two states to see me?Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-25321968793292203202008-08-03T18:33:00.000-07:002008-08-03T18:33:00.000-07:00Steven - Did you simply lose touch with her? Or did something go wrong?<BR/><BR/>In any case, I'll be (almost) crossing two states whenever I go to see Ché, if you consider BC a state. I guess we must really like someone to do that.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-89833044591841913262008-08-03T18:26:00.001-07:002008-08-03T18:26:00.001-07:00Barry - Yes. The spelling of a sound is a very scientific thing, and I did much research prior to writing this post.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-75757325991586878382008-08-03T18:26:00.000-07:002008-08-03T18:26:00.000-07:00I AGREE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT! My closest female friend EVER is a woman I met via my blog. She lives in Georgia and I can't explain the "why" behind our close friendship, but I do know its real, its meaningful and often she's the first person I think of when I have "news".<BR/><BR/>Of course there are a few chicks up in Oregon that are pretty damn special to.<BR/><BR/>Its great that you and Che found each other and got to hang out IRL or F2F (however you want to say it)<BR/><BR/>I am so glad you wrote this post. I hope all the rasberry deserving people out there find it and read it!!!Barbara(aka Layla)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11100008292699584336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-64450686730351310532008-08-03T18:12:00.000-07:002008-08-03T18:12:00.000-07:00I did the whole meeting someone online, becoming close friends thing years ago with this one woman. Martha, MC and I crossed two states to spend the weekend with her and her husband. It was a great time. I still have a picture of her dog on my computer, as well as of her kid when it was first born (yes, it, I don't remember the gender). The kid would be like three or nine or something now. I can't for the life of me remember her name at the moment.Wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205347723383170605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16714549.post-38533264166695433762008-08-03T18:08:00.000-07:002008-08-03T18:08:00.000-07:00"Ppbblltt."<BR/><BR/>So <I>that's</I> how you spell it!Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18344399473884127122noreply@blogger.com