18th December 2004

Posted December 18, 2004

Happy 25th Justin Varner!

One of my oldest and best friends in the world, Justin Varner, turns a quarter of a century old today, so from Rotheblog congrats big boy.

Justin and I have a funny story about how we met, but first, let’s all ooh and aah over the childhood photo.

This photo is funny because you would decipher that Justin was really into his little league baseball team. However, Justin and I only played baseball together for one year. He actually was more into Soccer and Swimming, which the latter was very strange to me at the time.

The other really weird thing I found when trying to find a photo was that I didn’t have very many of us. I have all of these photo albums full of ex-girlfriends that do me no good now, but not enough of him and me. Nothing I can do about that now.

Rotheblog Justin Varner Childhood Photo

But, the story about how we met. After my fifth grade year, my family moved to Grand Haven Michigan. I made it there in time for the summer baseball league, and my world revolved around baseball.

I didn’t have any friends obviously, so I looked down the roster for the baseball team, and figured out who on the team lived closest to my house and Justin was the culprit. We didn’t really have anything in common until a little later in life, but now we have a ton of interests in common and a lot of history.

So bud, I know you are sick of hearing that story, but it means a ton to me. Your friendship means a ton to me and I look forward to our next 25 years of life.