Tuesday, May 22, 2012

St James Veterans Memorial

Don't know if the Veterans in the post title should be plural or possessive. Or both. I'm pretty sure it should be plural.

Anyway - I went down to St James this weekend to see the dedication of the town's Veterans Memorial. It was a nice ceremony. Just the right amount of music, accolades and speaking. Lasted a little more than 30 minutes or so. Nuke's parents bought a brick for him.

H&W are away on vacation. N is house and pet sitting. We just hung around playing with the dogs. Went to the marina bar both Friday and Saturday evenings. I had fried oysters. It's been at least a year (more I think) since I've had 'em. They were done just right.

Drove back Sunday morning.

Photos can be seen here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/117415271904391624479/StJamesVeteransMemorialDedication201205#


Monday, May 14, 2012

2012 NCSU Football Tickets

Just ordered this fall's NCSU football tickets online. I get 4 season tickets.

This year's cost was 4 season tickets at $294.00 each ($1,176.00) + parking pass at $120.00 + application fee (whatever that is) at $23.00 + online ordering fee at $30.00 = $1,349.00. What the hell is an application fee? And somebody (the online company) is making out like a bandit at $30 a pop for online ordering.

Plus, I have to pay $600 per year in Wolfpack Club dues and $600 per year 'mortgage payment' on my Lifetime Rights. Lifetime Rights are the life time lease on my football and basketball seats. Which gives me the 'Right" to buy season tickets.

I think I've only got 1 year left to pay on my Life Time Rights. I've heard that when the LTRs are paid off - annual dues are going to go up. What do you want to bet the dues increase will equal the LTR annual payment?

LOL

But - we could be a Top 25 football team this year. And we are going to be a Top 10 basketball team.

I knew 25 years of Wolfpack Club dues were going to pay off someday!