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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2615838, member: 71723"]I forgot how hard it can be to roll a millennial out of the rack in time for the hotel breakfast and leave enough time to get where he needs to be. I was vertical at 6:00 AM and he'd have still been horizontal at 11, if I'd let him. But we needed to be at FUN by close to 10AM because we were "on a mission from gawd", aka we were there to take the ANA's Exhibit Judges' Familiarization and Certification course, usually taught by Joe Bolling, but being taught at FUN by Brett Irick, the "man of two countries". I call him that because Brett lives a binational life in the Detroit/Windsor Ontario area. I've been trying to get this certification under my belt for years, and my son barely missed the cut when he first took it at ANA Rosemont in August 2015. My usual ANA show duties make it tough to squeeze it in, being Rhonda Scurek's minion and all, so when I saw it offered at FUN, I jumped at the chance. My son wanted a second bite at the apple. </p><p><br /></p><p>We would have been on time except Siri directed us to the convention center THROUGH the secure area of Port Everglades, the cruise ship port. That meant getting stuck behind trucks that needed "enhanced attention" clearing security. So we rolled into the presentation room at what looked like 20 minutes late, but they were obviously just getting under way. No harm. No foul.</p><p><br /></p><p>The initial course took just shy of two hours, and I was set loose upon the U.S. Coins section, and Nicholas, my boy, was turned loose on the foreign coins section. His specialty is the coinage of the former Soviet bloc nations, especially the USSR itself. Cue the Beatles White Album.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2615838, member: 71723"]I forgot how hard it can be to roll a millennial out of the rack in time for the hotel breakfast and leave enough time to get where he needs to be. I was vertical at 6:00 AM and he'd have still been horizontal at 11, if I'd let him. But we needed to be at FUN by close to 10AM because we were "on a mission from gawd", aka we were there to take the ANA's Exhibit Judges' Familiarization and Certification course, usually taught by Joe Bolling, but being taught at FUN by Brett Irick, the "man of two countries". I call him that because Brett lives a binational life in the Detroit/Windsor Ontario area. I've been trying to get this certification under my belt for years, and my son barely missed the cut when he first took it at ANA Rosemont in August 2015. My usual ANA show duties make it tough to squeeze it in, being Rhonda Scurek's minion and all, so when I saw it offered at FUN, I jumped at the chance. My son wanted a second bite at the apple. We would have been on time except Siri directed us to the convention center THROUGH the secure area of Port Everglades, the cruise ship port. That meant getting stuck behind trucks that needed "enhanced attention" clearing security. So we rolled into the presentation room at what looked like 20 minutes late, but they were obviously just getting under way. No harm. No foul. The initial course took just shy of two hours, and I was set loose upon the U.S. Coins section, and Nicholas, my boy, was turned loose on the foreign coins section. His specialty is the coinage of the former Soviet bloc nations, especially the USSR itself. Cue the Beatles White Album.[/QUOTE]
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