Meeting my friend P
Jun. 30th, 2025 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday I finally got to meet my online friend P, who knew J briefly in high school and more regularly in college. I knew them both from the same online game but was friends with P first. We’d somewhat lost contact with him – we knew he was living in Hawaiʻi and doing volcano-related work, and that he was married and had kids. We didn’t know that his wife is from Oregon and that they regularly visited her family in the Portland area, but this year he had time to come down to see us! We spent about eight hours in conversation, catching up, and we ate Thai food for dinner and took a walk and introduced P to the Hollow Knight game. As it happens he’s become locally famous in Hawaiʻi for his work on volcano preparedness and emergency community response – he’s running an online site with 160,000 followers – so the anonymity of visiting Oregon is quite welcome.
Azalyn, who has been very shy of visitors in the past, apparently decided she could cope with yet another new-to-her person within days of the last two, although she was wary. Ambrose, however, was horrified – he had evidently maxed out on JM and NW – and not only refused to come inside while P was here but got into a great loud howling fuss directed at his friend Oberon, who was quite bewildered. He was making such a racket that we thought he might be sick or injured. However, when P headed down the driveway to go back to Portland, Ambrose let J pick him up and was calm and normal thereafter.
Now we expect things to be back to normal for an entire month! J will be home, and we won’t have any special guests. It should be quite relaxing.
Azalyn, who has been very shy of visitors in the past, apparently decided she could cope with yet another new-to-her person within days of the last two, although she was wary. Ambrose, however, was horrified – he had evidently maxed out on JM and NW – and not only refused to come inside while P was here but got into a great loud howling fuss directed at his friend Oberon, who was quite bewildered. He was making such a racket that we thought he might be sick or injured. However, when P headed down the driveway to go back to Portland, Ambrose let J pick him up and was calm and normal thereafter.
Now we expect things to be back to normal for an entire month! J will be home, and we won’t have any special guests. It should be quite relaxing.
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