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Hey guys I'm back after a busy couple weeks and a short suspension!!! These past couple weeks/month have been crazy!!!!

I apologize for not getting back to many of you sooner regarding some of your personal messages... we've got some catching up to do!!!

Claus - I am sorry the wicket raffle prize took so long to get out to you! For some reason it got returned back to me, the lady at my post office said it was because the O didn't have the / through them. Once it got back to me I was bogged down with work and grading finals at the end of the school year, closing/moving with the new house, and having my charity event for the Make-A-Wish Foundation!!!
I hope you like the costume and I hope it has a nice home in your collection!!! It looks great on you by the way!!!

John - I know I thanked you a couple times already via email, but just wanted to say thanks again for the phone donation to my charity raffle. I hope to have pictures soon, but my 5th Annual Crosstown Classic Crawl benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation Illinois Chapter was a huge success!!! We had about 600 people attend the event and raised just under $10,000 for MAW. That will make 1 and a 1/2 kids wishes come true!!!! To bad the Cubs lost that day!!!!

Shawn - The Boba Fett Mailer is AMAZING!!! I can't wait to get a case from Oscars Cases to put it in!!!! Thanks!!!

OTHER NEWS

House - My wife and I have been slowly but surely moving into our new house! With our busy schedules it just been impossible to find a couple full days to move everything in and get all the work done and fixer uppers that need to be finished around the house!!! So we do a little at a time. We just got some plumbing work done, our shower needs to fixed before we can official start living in the new house. We also just moved in a ton of new furniture. Painting and new carpet is coming up next.

Puppy - And taking up the rest of our spare time is our new puppy!!!! Her name is Riley and is a female 3 1/2 month old Weimaraner. She is too cute for words and is learning quickly!!!!!! I will have more pics of her soon!!!








CHARITY EVENT PHOTOS - Here are a couple pics, will have more soon!!!

My friend Mike who helped me out this year! Yea he is really tall, but he is also standing on steps of the DJ booth!!!


Me and the Chicago Blackhawks Ice Crew Girls who helped sell raffle tickets.


My friend Dan McIntyre who spend over $100.00 on raffle tickets and won a ton of prizes, including John's cell phone!!!


Some of the other prize winners. The short guy won the Joe Montana Autographed Proline Football Helmet, retail $700-$1000.


Some crowd shots early on during the event at Cubby Bear.


More Cubby Bear pics.

Yay good to see you back Coach glad everything is moving into place for you, cool photos too, looks like a great event!
puppy Riley is real sweet!

Welcome back, bud. Glad the charity event went well, too bad the Ice Crew Girls wasn't part of the raffle or I would've jumped in on it. Those pix of Riley are just adorable. Your right, she is too cute for words.

I got to say Riley the puppy is awesome!!

Glad to see your on top of everything now Coach trying to contact you was like trying to find a needle in a haystack for a while!

Did you see the pictures of Claus wearing the costume in the Lastest purchases thread? Very funny!

I took some more pics of her on our walk yesterday.... there not the best pics as I used the crappy camera, but I'll post them on here soon!!!

Isn't there a TIG Dog Thread or something like that???

Thanks for understanding about me being AWOL for several weeks. Things were insane!!! I was so stressed out I didnt even really get to enjoy my Bar Crawl Charity Event.

Yeah I saw Claus pic!!! Funny stuff... thank god he wasnt wearing it naked!!!

Posted a couple new pics of the puppy!!!

Gonna take some pics of the new house to post as well!!!

My office/display room is about ready to start setting up!!!

more pictures like this please

without you in the middle You have been a busy chap.

Thanks for the costume coach It has a place in my vsw cabinet as a TIG nostalgia - it still scares me, and Im not going to put in on naked, even if TIG members think otherwise.

Glad to hear the moving is coming allong, and the puppy is a heartbraker (The two chicks on the photo to)

Thanks for being patient and understanding!!! It would have gotten to you even if I had to go to Denmark and drop it off myself!!! Which would have been a blast since I have Danish blood and relatives in Denmark!!!!

Hey james, it was great reading the update. I think sometimes it is easy to forget that we have lives outside of SW. Also, glad to hear that you got the mailer okay.

Welcome back, you have been busy!

Are you still the 1000mph guy you were before? lol