Yay for old friends
The past few weeks have been good for randomly reconnecting with lost friends. First, I found a few college friends through LinkedIn (it’s like MySpace, but for professionals who want to stay connected with all their business contacts). It’s weird to see how much old friends have changed, and also weird to see how much they haven’t. :-)
Last week, I discovered that an old high school friend also worked at Google, though in the New York office. I was looking through some docs and I saw that a Product Manager with the name of Alexander Vogenthaler worked here. I thought, “That can’t be that common of a name”, so I sent a “Are you the same Alex?” email to him. And of course, it was my friend, so we got to catch up on the last nine years of our lives.
Nine years, it’s crazy, but it’s really been that long since high school. Which means the 10 year reunion is coming up! I need to hurry up and become handsome or rich soon. :-)
I recently signed into my old AIM account, which I haven’t touched since college. The first thing I noticed is that I no longer know who half of all the screen names are. I plan to IM people and say something like, “Hi there. You’re on my buddy list, who are you again?” :-)
Josh, my old friend from my Xilinx days, IM’ed me today and we got to chat about the past 6 years since we last talked and reminisce about our wacky adventures eating enchiladas while working on HDL Bencher.
Let’s hope that this trend continues!
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