well then
I went back to my hotel room but couldn’t get too much done, because I had a lunch appointment at 11:30am. Met up with some folks from Mars Hill Church in G.R. Along for the ride was DJ Chuang. We ate Chick-Fil-A — MAN, THAT’S A GOOD SANDWICH. I wish we had Chick-Fil-A back in SoCal, btw. DJ and I went back to my hotel room and I checked out. I was late checking out, but they didn’t seem to mind. Headed back to a 2:30pm meeting, but ran into another co-conspirator. Together we conspired as we sat on the carpet. Ran into Bill Haley - man it was good to see that brother from DC. Jeremy Del Rio has been taking pictures all conference long, and he got some “networking” shots of me with some folks. I hope I don’t look like a space alien. Hung out at the TechMission booth - how cool is that? Andrew Sears ran the entire, 8-laptop cybercafe OFF HIS CELL PHONE. HE RAN A WHOLE CYBERCAFE, NETWORKED, OFF A CELL PHONE! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I confess I didn’t think it would work well. But when we learned the Marriott wanted $7,000 for internet access, we were forced to consider “other options.” Ran into Randy Wallace from Appalachia - that man needs a blog! He told me things about Appalachian culture that I never imagined. Good, good stuff. Saw Angel Halstead and a good guy, Jeff Bass(?) from Emmanuel Gospel Center. When I went back outside the booth area I threw some quarters over the rail to the floor below, hoping to hit Eric Iverson. Well, not really hit him with quarters, but more to surprise him that money was falling out of the sky. Like manna from heaven. (This is what you do when you have been intensely paying attention to others for an extended period of time - you need a break.) Went downstairs, found DJ again, found Jeremy again, razzed some Phillies fans while we stood in line at Starbucks, saw Rick Sawyer from Miami, we plotted (CCDA Miami ‘08, anyone?) Saw Dean Cowles and Steve Park (Little Lights in DC, good man). Saw Charlotte again and DJ again and Jeremy again. Met Steven Ortiz from Philly, who does tech stuff for the Christian Community Health Fellowship - we are going to be friends. Saw Mary Erickson and her assistant at the hotel bar, trying to get their laptop online. I tried to help. It fixed itself, really. Reeled in Flo, who had gone with Caroline the summer intern to see The Liberty Bell. Flo and I plotted. Came in, got my bags, DJ and I got a cab, we came to this Starbucks near University of the Arts and now we are waiting to get picked up by his wife. I’m on my way to New York City, Bed-Stuy, to see my awesome in-laws. I miss my beautiful wife Kafi and my son Samuel and my bitty boo Micah.
posted Sep 29, 2006, 4:13pm by Rodolpho Carrasco
Rudy it was nice to see you out there. Chick-fil-a are I a lot of malls out here. This dude I know, knows the guy who founded it and there is some kind of Christian conference center that they set up, and they support kids and Campus Crusade, and Focus. But your probably already know all that.
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There are quite a few Chick-Fil-A in Socal, nothing real close to Pasadena but all over LA and a few in OC. Google desktop just places this blog in my web clips box at random. (after I did a search for CCDA) I was one of the 10 or so Canadians that happended to attend CCDA in Philly, but will make sure many more do next year in St Louis. Glad Sue-G was on stage to give us fair respresentation.