First a little background. Luis and I had emailed back and forth about Twitter and Planet Lotus a couple weeks if not days before the start of Lotusphere. I had also been doing a lot of reading of his tweets and blog entries, suffice it to say, he was one of the many I was excited to meet at Lotusphere this year.

So there we are, a group of us waiting next the beer stand at Islands of A., waiting for the other half of our larger group to get off the Hulk. I turn to throw something away and see  Luis doing the same… “Hi Luis, Yancy Lent”… The name doesn’t register, fine… I’ll try again. “Yancy Lent of Planet Lotus, we’ve been emailing back and forth…”. Come on, how many Yancy’s could there be… His face goes from confusion to disbelief. I’m trying to muster something to say that will remind him… and then a smile, then bigger and then he says the funniest thing I heard all week… “I though Yancy was a girl”. I start laughing, he starts laughing and I’m pretty sure my coworkers behind us drowned out the both of us. It was hilarious.

 I can’t tell you how blessed I am to have a name so unique; I know there are no shades of uniqueness, anyway, it’s the single best ice breaker my parents could have given me.

It was great to share a laugh with Luis, and some great conversation, he is truly an amazing guy.

It was also great to meet so many of the bloggers in the Lotus bloggesphere. It is an informal fraternity that I am thrilled to be a part of… more on that in future posts.

P.S. I have since added my picture to linked-in, facebook, twitter and soon this blog :)