Highlights Of My Day

*) Did the Gamers' Bizarre Bazaar at HobbyTown. Sold a few things; bought nothing, made enough cash to go from "nowhere near enough money" to "not quite enough money".

*) Got a couple stickers that I will need to scan and post a separate entry about.

*) Missed my aunt and uncle when they visited Rather Manor for lunch. Did NOT miss Lynn's cake, however. In fact, I'm doing everything in my power to avoid the siren song of another piece. Granted, I will need a midnight snack in a couple hours.

*) Saw the ESPN show on ABC today about the life of NASCAR would-be superstar Tim Richmond. The ultimate spoiled rich boy/enfant terrible/non-Good Ol' Boy whose career and life were cut short by AIDS-related health problems.
Links...
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=mcgee_ryan&id=5696274
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4397552
http://30for30.espn.com/film/tim-richmond-to-the-limit.html

*) Got to re-friend former Livejournal user Jolly Roger Blackburn on Facebook. I know I should have done it long ago, but there was no need as I participate very often on the official Kenzerco boards.

The Sticker

It's only a couple inches across.

Why?

1) Grayson is one of the major car dealers in Knoxville. They used to be the main Pontiac dealer, and in past years, their sticker included the arrowhead of the Pontiac logo. Now that Pontiac is gone, they just have the checkerboard that evokes both BMW (which is their main business now) and the University of Tennessee (which often has checkerboard motifs for their sports teams).

2) In David Weber's Honorverse, Grayson is a star nation, centered in the Yeltsin system, which is important to the saga and one of my favorite factions, so I just had to have one of these. Mine will go on my tool chest, not Moonshine's tail.

3) Grayson is the name of the toddler child of my high school classmate Chuck Oppermann, so I had to get one for him as well.

FP