Partners in crime up in The City
My best bud Kenny lives up in San Francisco. We met while going to Mesa Community College down here in San Diego and it was an auspicious meeting to say the least. If I remember correctly, I saw him for the third time out of four classes, we had the same schedule, and after going there by myself and never really connecting with anyone, I thought I should get to know him. We were in a yoga class, and in the Downward Facing Dog position I heard him next to me say, "Is it in yet?" I swear I still laugh to this day, even now as I type this. I realized he had my sense of humor, we were both in a design program, I later found out that he was in recovery and gay as well. That was it, we were buddies for life.
We continued on and met our third partner in crime named Karen, who I recently reconnected with on Facebook, which was amazing as she married and changed her name. I never thought we would get in contact again as she moved with her husband back to Israel thereafter. Anyways, back to the story at hand...
So, as I was a year ahead of Kenny in classes, I left and went on to SDSU and he followed a year later. We had so much fun going to classes, carpooling, Starbucks breaks and classes with "Mistress" who cracked the whip in our Flash class. We talked recovery, life, finance, world events, etc. He is my best friend outside of my relationship with Dave. Here we are each graduating, couldn't have made it without him.
As I am an Egyptology nut, love that I grew up in San Francisco as well as web design, I told Kenny about the Tut Exhibit coming to the De Young and a Flash conference that Adobe was putting on for free up there and he should check it out. The price was right and he was there. I said I would go if I could and he said why not? He checked airline rates and within a few hours and talking with Dave I had a flight booked and was going to visit Kenny, see my city and go to a free Adobe Flash conference. Unemployment does have it's advantages sometimes!
As for the Egyptian exhibit, Dave and I need to plan another trip up there as it goes well into 2010. See May 8th posting for details if interested.
Anyways, more will be revealed upon my return. I am going up on May 26-30th. We are going to do a photo shoot as well with some props I used as a model for one of Kenny's photography classes. A laugh for sure, just updated and in various parts of The City with props I'm sure that will be hilarious. Here are two of the pictures he took of me made up as a character we'll call Alvin.
