to all my friends
Man. Another year. I bet it's snowing back home, or you already have a bunch of wet, cold, annoying white crap on the ground. That, I don't miss.
Well, shit, I'm gonna plough through this post the best i can without being a loser/dork/mush-bag so here goes: Looking back on my life, I wouldn't trade any of the stuff I've been through with you guys for the world. We're all older, maybe all of us a bit colder, and some of us moved away. But I can sit here during this lame xmas time (ive always hated christmas, even now im not so down with it) and look at you guys and your blogs and see that somehow like 7 of us have stayed in touch through the years and the changes ....and thats freakin crazy. Tim, Tim, Tim, Andrew, Joe, Ellis - MAN. I dunno. HAH. usually i try and write and its so fluid seeming and i look at this and its serrated like a blade and choppy like a lumberjack but maybe thats when being real is being real. So the point is this: I love you guys. I really fricken do. I was looking at you all today, for some reason, and recognized that i am so thankful for having had all of you in my life...
Ol' twostripe is leaving soon, and i wonder and suspect this might be the last time we're all at the same place at the same time. the world is getting shitty and who knows what could change in a year - so lets all try and get together for one last time - maybe honestly THE last time.... ill be in town from the 25th to the 9th. i know ellis is gone til january and everybody else has got their own things going on as well. but i think we should give it a shot.
i know we're all different and we're all still 'growing up' i guess. but i just wanted to say i have a tremendous amount of respect for each and every one of you and i hope to see you soon.
hah! remember that, easter? the whole bus scene? man. we couldnt have scripted it better. "This is like the teenage american dream!!!!" , and then the cops surprise the hell out of us......... 'well, that dream is over.'
what perfect timing.................. hah.
Randy,
First I want to say your welcome, and thank you too. Thank you to all you guys. Like Randy said I love you all too. You are my best friends and I don't know where I would be with out you all. I never really went away to college so I don't have the college friends that some of you have, for the most part you guys are it for me. I really got to think about Easter moving away and Randy saying that this might be the last time we are all together. At first I said no way, then I though he's right. Not only is Easter moving away butI will be too for at least 4 years, and if everything goes well with my career I will not be coming back to Connecticut to live anymore. It's kinda scary and sad, I have 5 more moths here and then thats it. I will miss you all, but until then let's try to have a great time together while it lasts.
Hey man...It will only be the last time if you make it the last time.
You know we will have a good time in the next few weeks. That is how we do it man. Whenever all of us get together we usually make quite the scene and annoy everyone around us as much as we can. That is probably what makes it so fun….looking at the faces others who trying to figure out how we are having such a good time.
Anyways…There is no group of crazy guys I would rather be stuck in a foxhole with because I know we would win whatever battle we were stuck in.
I have known you guys for so long I really consider you all like family. We grew up together and a lot can be said for that.
HIGH FIVE 
Ross
p.s. Palaski and Hawthorne are waiting for your return Randy.
Come on guys...buck up! Want me to start handing out tampons?! Randy isn't moving to outerspace...Ellis will probably be stateside for a good chunk of his time in service, and Easter moving to FLA will be a good excuse for us old timers to finally go down for spring break
heh. theyre the statues in downtown hartford. pulanski and hawthorne. nathaniel hawthorne...... the historical war guy we learned about once in like 4th grade.
