You may remember Stephen as the person who had mysteriously left a coffee art book at my door when we were not there. He lives very close to me and insists that he walks regularly in downtown Alpharetta. But we rarely get to see each other!! We had worked together in our old company for some time.

Today, we finally scheduled some time and met up at a local coffee house. Incidentally, I did not drink my tea with the biking helmet on. As we were leaving, I suddenly realized that I had not taken a picture of us. Thus…

Of course, there was no way I was letting Stephen go without teaching me more about coffee. Learnt a lot of new things including how to work around the sour or bitter tastes of coffee. I also had to pick up some notes on how he has kept himself so healthy inspite of being failry ahead of me in age. Loved his discipline and passions for other things in life he has.

It was a great time for me. I am glad we talked on his birthday a few days back and decided to meet up. Need to do this more often.

It had been a whole week since I last visited an airport. To alleviate some of the withdrawal symptoms, I gathered my laptop, an umbrella, some paper and pen and headed towards downtown Alpharetta. The idea was to sit down at Boarding Pass in one of those Delta seats that they have (they also have those carts they wheel down the aisle in Delta planes!!) and catch up on some work.

After finishing talking to the owners – Murilo and Christine – and gathering my drink, I started walking towards one of those flight seats. And that is when I heard my name being yelled. Looked at the corner table and who else did I see but good old Tina!! We worked together some 15 years back. I have a lot of memories of her as one of our brightest and fastest growing executives. Lately, I had been getting updates of her from another CEO friend of mine (who she had started working with) but I had not seen her for over a decade!

It was so great to catch up with her and meet her husband Diego, her son and his girlfriend!

Now, I have to look her up in Blairsville when I go there in my motorbike.