I've come to a conclusion late tonight... It comes on the heals of advice my sister and brother-in-law gave me several years ago.

It was probably the summer of 2001 - after I graduated college - and after I had moved down to Fishers, IN to live with my sister and brother-in-law, when they both had approached me and told me that I would find out who my true friends are. Especially, that I had graduated college and was now "officially" in the "real world."

It's hard, even at this late hour (it's currently 2:50am!) and that it's 7 years later, that I'm just now grasping this concept.

I won't go into details, but just the fact that I'm sitting here writing this after several drinks and an evening-full of visiting with co-workers, rest assure, I'm in a state-of-mind that I can reason.

I know who my true friends are, now. And definitely, those close friends I can trust.

Let's just say everyone accompanying either category lives back in Bluffton, Indiana or Fishers, IN.

None of them live in North Dakota.

That's all I'm going to say... For now.