I wasn't on the show floor more than 3 minutes before I encountered the Taliban!

Recognized a lot of folks from

The secret reason why I kept saying Hy to everyone:

There were chips from all sorts of strange places such as:

Hey, chippers, I bet none of you ever thought to get a ladder and look on the rooftops near casinos!

I sat next to Dick Bartley, Reggie Gummer and Raulin Mendonca at Ernie Wheedon's table. You might think this would have broken out:

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But it actually was quite . . .

Just about the only person I did NOT see at the Convention:

I placed an auction bid for the minimum amount, and was told by several people I had absolutely no chance of winning it, so I skipped the auction . . . and won anyway!

Next, one of the chips I loaned to Trey Warren for the display won the Coyote Of The Year Award. Yip, yip, yip and ahhhwoooo!

Apart from the food poisoning gotten from the South Point Oysters, I had a great time, and hope to meet all you Cowboys again, next year at