Autographs

As I age, the concept of autographs seems silly to me. Some other human with some form of talent signed their name. My first autograph was at the local little league baseball preseason parade, 1975 or '76. Detroit Tiger Mickey Lolich made an appearance and must have signed 200+ items with a slew of 10 year olds in line. He signed my mitt that I played with so needless to say, the autograph didn't last long after a few games and don't recall losing a bit of sleep over it.  I have a handful of autographed items but none were actually signed in my presence. Some live for collecting them, I don't. My dad used to tell anyone that would listen that the signed baseball on the right of the attached picture was from the 1968 World Champion Tigers but was actually from the '74 season when they were crap. My favorite autograph story was at the old Buick Open golf tournament in Grand Blanc that my dad took me to a couple of years. I was hanging at the 18th green and got a handful of autographs from the pros coming off the course. Up walks Chi Chi Rodriguez and I asked for his autograph. He looks at me says, "You want to know how Tom Kite signs his name?" and proceeded to scribble through all of the autographs I had on my program. He laughed and walked away.

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Coming Soon....Someday

While my next move will be into the old folks home, when I moved north in the spring of 2022, the attached 'Coming Soon' signs were adorned along the bike path looking off onto Betsie Bay. Waterfront condos is/was the vision and a beautiful vision it is/was looking off to the west from your luxury condo. It is now 2026, however, and the 'Coming Soon' signs have had more activity than the condo construction, which is none. It started with 'Coming Fall 2022' to 'Coming Spring 2023' to 'Coming Soon' to 'Coming 2024' and stayed that way through 2025. A big wig realtor in the area slapped her name on the project and the locals in town told me it would now go forward with her name on it. Up went a 'Coming Spring 2026' sign, the building area was cleared and thought it was going to happen. Spring came and went and with summer just about complete, the latest update back to 'Coming Soon' is in place.

Someday

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