I am Cell

My Buddy

I met this guy at Nebraska Furniture Mart. He was crazy. I can't really remember what conversation we had that even brought on the friendship. I am sure that it had to do with music. I want to say that our buddy Eric introduced us formally but who knows. He worked on the G/P Dock. I worked in receiving. To be fair, I think I came in on the tail end of his being crazy. He was in the middle of finishing up a teaching degree when we met nearly 10 years ago at NFM.

Halo---man, we have played some games. Some how, he has always managed to best me. Even when I practice and smoke most of my online opponents, my buddy comes along and kills me everytime. I'm a level 24. That's not bad, and he wins.

I changed the fate of our gaming forever as I stood in line at Dragon's Lair comics. As I stood there with my D&D Dice waiting to pay, I listened to an 8 minute conversation between the checker and some kid about Magic The Gathering. Now first, I was getting mad. "Stop talking and ring up his merchandise" I kept thinking. Then I starting listening. Magic the Gathering. Sounds fun. I bought a deck and showed my buddy. He bought the core game and the rest is history. We play online all the time now. HA!!

Somewhere in the middle of Halo and Magic, he got me started on a serious note with photography. I had a nice video camera. That was my first attempt. I ended up liking the "Still" shot feature of the camera though. So, one day my buddy offers a temporary trade of his Canon 10D for my video camera. I was hooked on the Still photography from there. I bought that Canon from my buddy and looking back, I realize what a great deal he gave me on it.

My buddy and I have been on alot of really cool photo trips since then. The pictures above are from a trip to Western Nebraska we took. Now that I live in Chicago and he in Omaha, I look forward to his visit out here and some more really cool trips together looking for that perfect picture.

We will always play halo. We will always play Magic. I will always be asking him photo questions. He will continue to give me confidence to be a photographer myself and someday, I will hopefully help him to be better. We will always share the new bands we find with each other. My lifelong Buddy.

Jerred.