A couple photos from San Diego... this first one has become a tradition -- me, Adro, Evey and Judy in front of a GCM cover at the GCM booth. I think we've done this three years now (I'll have to look in the archives to see if I'm right. If I'm right, I'll post all three together. If I'm wrong... you'll never hear about this again.)
The second one has a little bit of a story to it. It's literally ten minutes after we'd taken the top photo, and a superintendent walks into the GCM booth. "Are you Seth Jones?" he asks me. "Yes..." "And you're married to Adrianne, right?" "Yes..." "I went to high school with Adrianne! My family knows the Weibel family!"
So we start chatting and I ask if he's seen Adrianne at the show yet? No, hasn't seen her in years, he tells me. Then he asks -- we have a little girl, right? Yes, we sure do... would you like to see them? And Judy? And he's like, "Judy is here too?!?"
The guy's name is Chris Ericson, and I've heard stories about his family from Alan since I've known him (It starts out 30 years ago, with a car with Kansas plates -- Douglas Co. -- rolling down Alan's street in McAllen, Texas, and Alan stopping them to see where they were from in Douglas Co.).
So now I know I need to arrange a quick family reunion.
I take Chris to where Adrianne is working, we have to wait in line. Once she's done, I'm just sort of like, "Hey, say hello to Chris..." and Adrianne gives a look like I'm introducing her to my friend... and I'm like, "Chris Ericson." And she look at his name tag and goes "Chris!!!" Turns out she hasn't seen this guy since they were little kids. So I call Judy, same thing -- except I introduce him first and last name, and it takes her a second to register the name and then it hits her -- BOOM! old friends from back in Texas reunited.
Anyway, kind of cool.
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