Just standing in line making memories.

              It’s funny how photos can help you remember details of events just by looking at them. Especially photos from sci fi/comic conventions. For everyone else, this photo is of myself meeting Brent Spiner, fellow Texan that is mostly known for portraying Lt. Comm. Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation. But for me, this photo gives me a few more details. One being the shirt that I was wearing. It was just a shirt that I had picked up from Old Navy that had some random BBQ restaurant in Texas on it. Could have been a real place, could not have been. I honestly don’t know. Well, when it was finally my turn, Brent Spiner started asking question after question about my shirt and the restaurant on it. If it was good and where was it located in Texas so he can go there. The second memory I have about this photo was just the random guy and his wife that was standing behind me. At most conventions, I usually go by myself and I usually keep to myself. Especially back then. But we all started talking about this and that. Afterwards they went on their way, I went on mine. 

             At that time Facebook hadn’t really taken off yet. I don’t even think it was around. But the convention had message boards (I miss those days) and you can post comments and photos etc about the shows and you could actually keep up with the conversations without them getting lost in the algorithm. Well I had commented on the board about the show and this person said he took a photo if I wanted it. Sure enough, it was from the couple behind me. So who’d thunk it? On Oct. 23, 2004 at Dallas Comic Con when a random photo was taken of a random person a friendship would start. And even though we don’t hang out as much, I still consider the both of them really good friends. Here’s to another almost 20 years my friends.