The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VII.. Stop In!!!

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Good morning everyone. A nice light but steady rain, probably all night. Easing up a bit now but suppose to be wet most of today and tomorrow. I'll certainly screw up a lot of the activities going on around town, but, if you've paid for any of them, tough luck, they will go on anyway and there will be no refunds. The Phoenix Open, well, they won't play in the rain and so there are still no refunds even if you can't get to the makeup times. I'm kind of in between, I don't know if I want to spend a few hundred dollars to buy tickets to a golf tournament that may be rained out that day, or spend a few thousand to see a football game in a domed stadium.

All week long they've been warning everyone about buying fake tickets and NFL goods. It seems as if the NFL doesn't make anything when you buy a $25 fake football shirt instead of one for $100 authorized by the league. I'm not saying that faking NFL goods is OK, but I'm thinking that if some guy can import shirts at $10 each and make money selling them at $25 each, the NFL is doing darn well getting their cut at $100. The fake tickets, well, that's buyer beware. You have to wander how some shady-looking guy on a street corner has a stack of tickets that he's willing to sell at a cut rate, cash only deal. The real tickets have raised printing, holograms and printing that can only be seem using a black-light, yet people are taking chances spending thousands of dollars on tickets printed on a home inkjet printer. Go figure....