Why Cville needs a regional

Charlottesville is a great city, with tourist attractions, etc, and it's just the sort of place snooty bridge players love to spend their money.
If Roanoke can have a regional, dammit, we should get one, too. I mean, even Lexington had a sectional. And Radford. Charlottesville can definitely support a regional.

We need a new playing site in Cville. Our second hotel in 5 years is being torn down, and the only other option that any of us has come up with is the Omni. It's the only site with large enough ballrooms. The problem is, it's fucking expensive. Our puny sectionals would be in the hole if we had to pay for it. BUT a regional would draw way more people, and then the Omni might be willing to cut us some slack for our sectionals there - also, people would come from farther away (as they do for regionals), see what a great tournament we run here, and it would revive the sectionals.

One of the main reasons numbers have dropped off for our sectionals is that the hotels are dumps. If we can hold the games in a nice hotel, the numbers will improve.

DC can't have their annual regional in '08 (or '09, I can't remember) because the NABCs are going to be there, so Charlottesville is a good candidate for that regional anyway. Let's get the ball rolling and make it annual!

I'll run it. I've done thousands of these things (okay, but at least a hundred) and I can totally do it. People love the MABC and I won't let them down. I can arrange for caddies, a board - give me the green light and consider it done.

Now I just need to figure out to whom I need to direct these points...but not today. I'm in FRFF preparation mode.

Peace.

Best Grafiti Ever

My office window looks out onto the train tracks. I love it when trains go by; it's so soothing in a way a folk fan can really appreciate. One thing that's really fun to look at is the grafiti - for some reason, trains are always the target of a lot of this type of art. I learned shortly after starting here, though, that there are a lot of cars on the tracks, and the chance of seeing the same grafiti twice is slim. So, imagine my happiness when I saw the return of one of my favorite trainside artistic expressions ever today, one I'd seen months ago and longed to see again, just to prove to myself I had actually seen what I thought I had. The best part was that the train was stopped outside my office as I was walking back from running an errand to the store, AND I had my camera on me.

Behold, the most creative and artistic grafiti ever:
( Are you sure you're ready for this? )

Peace.