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For the sake of social decorum, I took a slight break from my quest to drink only free coffee. WATE’s Tearsa Smith organized a “JavaTweetUp” at Javerde Coffee on Monday. I really like Tearsa and wanted to attend, even if it meant buying a coffee drink. Since it was lunch time, I also bought a salad.
Instead of my normal black coffee with artificial sweetener, I chose a Javacano with Shell Shock flavored coffee and liquid vanilla ice cream. They offer several different flavors of coffee. I want to try their Banana Creme at some point in the future. I did take advantage of the free samples of Javamel Royale to refill my cup before leaving.
Of course the point of a TweetUp is not the food, it’s the conversation. I had a great time talking with Fr. Christian Mathis, pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Lenoir City. He follows the Pope’s advice to use new media to the fullest. He’s on Twitter and Facebook, he writes a blog and records a podcast with WATE’s Jim Wogan. I promised to program it into my WiFi clock radio and give it a listen soon.
I also had a nice visit with Doug and Cathy McCaughan. I used to see them in the pre-Twitter days at “blogfests” organized by my blogfather, Rich Hailey. Doug and Cathy said they thought that blogfests fell by the wayside because of polarizing politics during the last presidential campaign. They said that attendance at TweetUps can be determined by political views too. I have no idea if I was hanging out with the correct group or not. I don’t fit neatly into any political party and my friends are on both extremes of the ideological spectrum. Maybe I should have taken a hint when I got left off the “tweets” mentioning the attendees.
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Thanks for the invite to the tweetup Frank. Hoping to catch up with you again soon.
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