Raise the Red Lantern

Football Tickets

Football tickets have arrived. Or, as they say at UNCheats - arroved.

Ticket books are a great idea. Tickets and parking passes are handy and organized. State switched over to the book format about 3 years ago. Should have done it 20 years ago (like some other schools).

Chip and I went over yesterday to check out our parking spot. We get moved slightly every year.

This year we are on the same row as last year - which is on the Gate A road (very easy ingress and egress). Location was great except that the spaces were so small / short - that when driving in - you might have a foot clearance on each side of your vehicle as there just wasn't enough room to park and set up a tailgate behind your vehicle without having your car (or truck) sticking way out into the road.

Someone at the WolfPack Club must be paying attention. This year - on the west side of the road - the spaces are now parallel parking. And sized for a full size truck like a Suburban or Expedition (this is NC State). With my little Escape, we'll have tons of room behind us - Chip is checking on getting a tent for shade and tailgating. Trinity Road Gate A - 94026. Stop by and visit. BYOB.

The Wolfpack Club and ticket office are also working on their websites - which, to put it mildly, have been simply awful. As in, someone should have been fired awful. Before you know it - the WPC and Ticket Office will be entering the 21st Century.

Driveway Light

Raise the Red Lantern was a pretty good movie. Not as great as it was hyped up to be - but still a pretty good movie. The story is conveyed not so much by the dialogue - but often the lack of dialogue. It's about the multiple wives and household 'office politics' of a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Regular movie run time of about 2 hours that seems to go on for days - LOL. Not for everyone.

The paint on my driveway light fixture faded out and sort of evaporated. It only lasted 15 years. The black outside faded to a pale green and the inside white faded to a dull black. Go figure. Likely due to the alloy of the metal - which I can't really tell what the thing is made of.

Was going to paint the fixture black (and underside white) as original. But when buying the paint - I decided to go with color on the spur of the moment. NC State Red. Fixture only. Leaving the post black.

I also considered yellow or grey which I thought would look OK with the black post. Went with red because the front door is already painted red. And NC State.

One of the neighborhood kids was riding his bike up and down the street when I was painting it. He said it looked cool.

So, there you go.