Found his website several years ago when I started working at Starbucks. I thought what he was doing was really cool and I emailed him asking when he had been to my store (it was brand new and he had a pic already). He emailed back, saying if he ever was in the area he'd try and say hi. Once he did come by but I wasn't there, and then really randomly in summer 04, he showed up at my store. A month later he was in town again and we hung out one night. After that we just kind of emailed every so often and kept in touch.