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Up really early this morning because I don't know if I'm judging today or not (found out I wasn't today, but am tomorrow). When I walked to the show, the first people I ran into were Instaurator, who was there with Andrew from Mountain Top Coffee in Australia - said my hellos and found out that Inny has a bunch of new articles for me (very cool!).
The trade show floor is a mess, not even worth photographing again (though I did snap a few pics). USBC is ready to go full swing, and Brent Fortune is Mr. Intensity, worrying if everything is done right. No worries Brent - looks like again, you did a fantastic job.
I hung around to watch the first couple of competitors, including Stephen Rogers from Intelligentsia who had the unenviable position of going first, and Shannon Rice from PT's Coffee, who looked very good at what she was doing.
I feel overwhelmed a bit by this year's USBC. Maybe it's the fact that I'm going to be very hands on involved in this year's CNBC in Canada, but I'm getting my own case of the worries, about how we're going to pull it off. I have really high goals for what I would like to see at our competition, and seeing the hoops that Brent Fortune, Michelle Campbell, Marcus Bonny and others are going through gives me the willies.
Here's some flickr goodness.
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