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An Early Call
Ring.
Something. There's something going on.
Ring.
It's slowly percolating through my head that something is going on.
Ring.
I realize it's the phone. I roll over, nearly out of bed, reach for the phone
on the floor and answer it.
“Get up!” my friend Greg said. “It's noon! Time to get up!” I mumble
something incoherent even to myself. “Get up! Meet me at my office at 1:00,”
he said. I mumble something incoherent to myself, hang up and wonder why I
even agreed to meet him for lunch at such an unreasonable hour.
It's a quarter to one and I'm just about ready to leave when the phone rings
again. It's Greg. “Change two to plan B,” he said. Of course, plans change.
“I'll meet you outside.”
“Where?” I said. “Here? My house?”
“Yup. Be ready.” And with that he hung up.
A few minutes later he's honking the horn and I'm stumbling out the door. “I
figured it would be easier if we carpooled,” he said. So we drove off to his
office to meet the rest of our group. We're late arriving to his office, but
we were still the first ones to show up. I've known Greg since high school
and right now he works for IBM [1] as a system administrator. Martin shows up
next. I've known Martin since high school as well, and he works for the Coast
Guard as a tactical instructor. It's always fun to listen to his stories.
Then Tom and his fiancé show up. And I've known Tom since elementary school.
He's currently an architect but he eventually wants to enter the FBI. [2]
Kurt then showed up.
We head over to the Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport to eat at the diner
there (good food). Afterwards we head up north to Boca Raton to play
miniature golf at Boomers, an arcade next to FAU. [3]
[1]
http://www.ibm.com/
[2]
http://www.fbi.gov/
[3]
http://www.fau.edu/
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