Lost friend

Facebook and other online communities are quite amazing.  I can't count how many people I have found through it that I wouldn't have normally even thought about.  Today I found one of my best friends from back in the day when we were in 3rd and 4th grade.  We used to carpool with each other back we went to school together so we got used to being with each other a lot almost like brothers would.  I had a chat with him tonight over facebook and couldn't believe that I had found one of my good friends from long ago and at the same time had no idea what to say to someone that I knew that well.  I really want to meet him again but I am somewhat weary about how I'll feel about my long lost friend after 8 years of no contact.  My first impressions based on photos and and what he's spoke about with me makes me think that we've both changed very much from when we were friends.  I hope we can meet soon and find that we're both still great friends... I'm just not sure if that will come to be or not.

BBBLLLLLAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.........   Ok *sigh* that's out now.  I haven't felt like I have the time to blog or that I had anything to blog about for a while.  I don't think I have anyone reading this except for John now which is cool but somewhat lacking... but hey when I'm older and wondering what the hell I was thinking I can come back to my blog! and rediscover the genius of my logic.  Until then I'm going to have try and make things interesting.  

Almost a week ago my mom and friends held a service for a friend of theirs that died, I was the photographer.  During the reception I was running around taking pictures and eating cookies until I approached by a friend of my mom's and someone that I enjoy talking to as well.  We started talking about photography which involved him asking me questions about it.  He owns some land in Panama and evidently panama has some strange laws for immigration so you have to have so much money invested to live there.  So Joe is trying to get a co-op of people to pool a large amount of money together so a group of contributers can go live there.  At some point in the conversation he asked me if I had a passport, I said yes and started to wonder at why he would ask me that.  Turns out he needs a photographer to take some real estate pictures in Panama and his photographer doesn't have a passport... (laughs maniacally) he proceed to ask ME if I wanted to do it.  I wanted to say "hell yeah" but felt that "Of course I want to" would have been adequate.  Joe, "It would be a free plane ticket, All expenses paid and you'll get paid too" Me, "... wow... that sounds awesome, I'm in."  So that's where I am right now with that.  All I know is it happens around June and it will be around 7-10 days long.  I'm really excited to go to another new country.  I will have been to Asia and Central America after this.  Pretty cool.

I need to still fit Japan in somewhere because I feel like if I don't go now It wont happen for a while.  Maybe this trip will help promote myself as a photographer and help with my income but we'll see.  If I can just afford a plane ticket for Japan I think that would be a huge step in getting there.