Friends....

Today I heard this: "Dude, we have this, on it". Coming from these people it means much. They mean it. I have watched their children grow up, had one in a Basic Pistol class not so long ago, a very nice young lady that I was stunned to see in class. A shy pre-adolescent in the day, now shooting a Handgun. The other is now a newly minted Grandfather. I trust these people with my life.

If these people tell me they have it, I believe them.  The other thing is after all these years with them I would truly miss them in my life. They have witnessed many things blow up in my life but they were always there. I have done the same with them.
  
I hated this place 20+ years ago. All I wanted to do was go home. Now I have some peace here, friends that mean much. It is not so much a physical location that you end up in where you feel comfortable, it is the people that surround you, the ones that you are comfortable with to draw into your circle. As they do with you.

The Blogger world is much like this.
 
To my friends here I say thank you. I am a better person to have met you. 

I would let you know later if my friends truly "have it" but it is a foregone conclusion.