I like all of you but Mike was special - I always spent hours digging through his buckets at the Convention (to his great amusement). Last year he mentioned to me, "People are always coming by here and expecting me to buy something from them!" And not one minute later, a man (a former casino dealer from Henderson, he said) appeared with a big box full of dice and asked if Mike "was interested." Mike slyly winked at me and it was all I could do to keep from breaking out in laughter. His wife, meanwhile, looked on, knowing what the outcome would be. Yep, Mike ended up with a box full of dice, and I never knew if he was able to sell any or not.

Awwww, I'm gonna miss him at this year's Convention. Which upon second thought, I'm gonna miss, too.