Total Recarl
Jun. 26th, 2009 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersWell, we had a reunion of the Carl Combine last night, with my anonymous housemate as the honorary host. It was just a few months over thirty years ago that three University of Oregon freshmen named Carl-sub-e, Carl-sub-i, and Carl-sub-pi drove from Eugene to Seattle to attend Norwescon, which was my first science fiction convention. Two of us were named Carl, so I was adopted as the imaginary Carl (thus sub-i). carl was Carl-sub-pi, the irrational Carl, and Carl L was Carl-sub-e, the natural Carl. Anyway, carl introduced us to my anonymous-not-yet-housemate on that trip, and we stayed one night at the house I would move into five years later.
So Carl L came up from Portland yesterday and took us all out to dinner at Kaosamai. After much head scratching, the Carls and I determined that the last time we'd all three gathered was at Robert G's 40th birthday party a decade ago when a whole bunch of the old Honors College gang got together in Eugene. But you know how these things go: we just picked up the conversation as though it had been yesterday. We still have a lot in common after all these years. For instance, none of us ever got married. Ha! (Not that Carl-sub-pi really has the option.)
Perhaps the most amusing thing about this reunion is how it came about. Carl L joined Facebook recently and found another college friend of ours,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mlamprey, who pointed him to my LiveJournal. Then I tweeted carl. Well, okay, no, we actually just took it to e-mail from there. Anyway, this modern world, eh? Apparently it still has a niche for the Carl Combine. Hope you can join us next time, mlamprey! We can be dumb, wet, and plaid once again.
So Carl L came up from Portland yesterday and took us all out to dinner at Kaosamai. After much head scratching, the Carls and I determined that the last time we'd all three gathered was at Robert G's 40th birthday party a decade ago when a whole bunch of the old Honors College gang got together in Eugene. But you know how these things go: we just picked up the conversation as though it had been yesterday. We still have a lot in common after all these years. For instance, none of us ever got married. Ha! (Not that Carl-sub-pi really has the option.)
Perhaps the most amusing thing about this reunion is how it came about. Carl L joined Facebook recently and found another college friend of ours,
mlamprey, who pointed him to my LiveJournal. Then I tweeted carl. Well, okay, no, we actually just took it to e-mail from there. Anyway, this modern world, eh? Apparently it still has a niche for the Carl Combine. Hope you can join us next time, mlamprey! We can be dumb, wet, and plaid once again.
