| Live From Day 2 of Calvin! |
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| Saturday, 19 April 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thanks to all the folks that stopped by our booth today to talk with us! Of course we added to our Friend wall again. Today we added Cathedral Hill Press (what's up, Dan and Steve!), Creative Byline (hi Gloria and Brad!), Intervarsity Press (shout-outs to Heather and Adriana!), and several others that I can't remember because my picture of the Friend wall is currently sitting on the memory card of the camera that wants to have a sleep-over in the car. Dudes, I'm sorry, but I just can't get myself to go get it. Update: More new Friends on the wall: Culture Is Not Optional, Word Farm (s'up Andrew and Mark!), and Qara Ministries! We planned this little improptu gathering at a local establishment called the One Trick Pony. It was a lot of fun, but unfortunately your friendly neighborhood tech guy can't seem to get correct directions. So if anyone actually used the directions I printed out and got lost, I am so sorry, and I am so fired from ever printing out directions again. Fortunately my other skills make up for my seemingly complete lack of cartograpic ability. Is cartographic a word? Anyway, I think most of the people who were planning on coming out got there. At least I hope so and tomorrow I won't be whaled on too much. Maybe Andy should have kept the directions. (longer story, will update tomorrow with illustrations.) Update: So Heather posted up the above pic on our PowerPoint show, and Andy, being the rascal that he is, cracked us all up by coming over and taking the directions! Ok, so maybe it's not a long story. You had to be there, it was much funnier, really. Afterwards we all ended up at Yann Martel's speak, and they tell me it was pretty good. Due to an unfortunate communication mix-up, I was the only Relief team member who got there just about time for him to finish up. Strike two for Coach. I was just not swinging at the right pitches it seems. Kimberly and I headed back to Calvin to hear one of my favorite teachers, Rob Bell. Rob's one of those guys that energizes the room. After listening to his talk on writing, I wanted to go back and actually finish the 80,000 word novel that's been lying around like a sick dog on my hard drive. One of these days when I either get time or figure out how to order a set of IV bags so I can just mainline caffeine, I might actually get around to writing the ending. (Sorry Andy, no zombies in that one.) We headed down to Wealthy Street for a little mixer we were honored to be invited to (thanks Lisa, Lisa Beth, and Laura!) and grabbed a quick drink and a s'more. Kim and I so wanted to stay longer and visit with so many cool people we had met in these last two days, but we were just cashed out. Realizing we had somehow both completely skipped dinner, we grabbed a to-go box from Friday's and headed back here to the hotel to chow and crash. So here I am, blogging when I should be in bed, again. But once again, I had to get some thoughts down real quick. If you're reading this before I put up pictures, come back around 10AM Michigan time Saturday and I'll post up pics from the camera that I left in the car. So here's to another great day of meeting great people like Marlena Graves, Renee and Vanessa Matheny (cousins, it turns out!) David Landrum, and a bunch of other folks that my tired brain will recall after I've slept at least some. More tomorrow! Update: Hit the Read More link for pics from Day 2 and the Relief Mixer at the One Trick Pony!
          
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Dudes, it's like 2:30 in the morning and I should so be asleep. We've been going since 8 this morning what seems like nonstop!
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