Brief visit w/ Barry and Karen

My good friend Dr Lavine (not a real doctor);his wife Karen, esq. (a real lawyer); my wife Shirley, MT (makes teeth); and I - Joe, SBG (short bald geek) all met for a brief visit today at Tampa airport. Barry and Karen were heading back home after vacationing with relatives, and had a bit of a layover in Tampa. Gosh, I don't think I'd seen Barry since I was up in the Pacific Northwest in August 2006 after my dad had passed away. And I'm guessing it'd been a few years since we'd seen Karen.

So we gathered at the Wharf pub in the airport and bs'd for an hour or so. It was like being back up in Portland, just shooting the breeze with friends. Very cool. Oh, and I tried to take a pic of the four of us by holding my camera out and shooting semi-blindly. From the left, going clockwise, that's Karen, Barry, Shirley, and me.

Comments

[Barry in Portland]

Great photo, but I'm troubled by the vague memory I have of staying at your house and drinking your very good mixed drinks, last January, when I was in Florida for work.

If I am mistaken, who are those people staying at your house, that look just like you? I am confused, but it could be jet-lag.

Great seeing y'all, by the way - it really helped to make our long travel day bearable. Sunny and mild in Portland today - there's no place like home.