Hey, everyone! It’s your old pal and President, Barry Sherwood. I’m sitting here, having extended my Vegas stay twice to get CCA things done and have a little fun. That’s supposed to be our new mantra, right? I’m pretty sure I read that someplace.

Didn’t get a chance to golf today, so foolishly opted to go to the CCA storage unit to see what I could clean up there. Lo and behold, the Promo stuff was staring me in the face.

As Promotions Director Pro Tem (the lawyers in this crowd will love that term), I had done a little cleanup and verified the inventory that Sharona did before she resigned, but I had not verified every little item in the back inventory.

Knowing that I would not be able to sleep tonight with any stones left unturned, and since sleep is for mortals anyway, I brought back the last major set of merchandise needing to be inventoried… The Pins! Probably thousands of the little buggers going all the way back to ‘97!! There sure are some pretty neat designs. I’ve always been impressed by the creative folks in this club.

I’m going to count every single one tonight, compare my totals to the number written on the Post-it notes tucked inside each baggie, and update my new inventory/tracking spreadsheet. I hope to have it done before the sun comes up because I have errands to run in the morning, auction items to get from Jim Follis, a round of walk-on golf to search for, a visit with Phil Jensen and Pearl if they haven’t given up hope on me, a buttload of Sumo Citrus Mandarin Oranges to buy (they’re on sale for $2.49/lb at Smiths right now) and then an 8+ hour drive back to Reno.

I did get a last minute seat to catch the opening performance of Def Leppard’s residency at Caesar’s Palace Colosseum last night (awesome!). But enough about me… um, strike that. It can never be enough about me, LOL.

The last pic is to prevent this from being non-chip related. Rules are rules. Small tournament. Busted out without cashing. No bad beat stories. Sorry.