Lunch with Dave.

[chaosmedian]

I'm going out to meet Dave, my biological father, for lunch in about an hour. From the few email exchanges we've had, he seems pretty cool, if not slightly dyslexic. He's a business-oriented type, a hobbyist, a traveler, a fisher, and a handyman. Apparently he's also an executive board member (whatever that means) for the Sun Run

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[tearn]

So how'd it go?

[chaosmedian]

It went pretty well, actually. He seems down to earth, and is pretty keen on getting to know me, and to show me his life and family. I think that I'm cool with that, so we'll see how it goes. It's a weird feeling though... I mean, this is a dude that I've never met, but he's responsible for my existence today. Before yesterday, I knew absolutely nothing about any part of his life. Now I know stories about members of my immediate family; births, deaths, and feuds of people I had no awareness of. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins... a whole clan of relatives/strangers.

It's a lot to absorb, so I'm going to try to know him a bit, rather than diving into it headlong. He's into golf, so I guess we'll be going out to the driving range sometime soon.

One thing that I found cool: He has good taste in cars... he drives a yellow S2000, which is the car I saved up to buy a few years ago; but when I went for the testdrive, it was too small for me and I ended up getting the 3000GT.

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