Thanks to Craig. No, HUGE thanks to Craig. He did a few cool things for me that included:

1. Commissioning the construction of a Crokinole board for me by one of his minions of Chinese craftsmen .

2. Bringing it back to Canada for me. And this was no small feat in that he CARRIED IT ON. This of course included fighting vigorously with Chinese, Japanese and Canadian security and airline staff. Craig felt fully comfortable and reasonable in these struggles knowing full well that one Adrian Conradi had in the past brought home MULTIPLE boards in the same manner. Only later did he realize the folly of his ways after speaking to Adrian and finding out that he had actually bubble wrapped them and stuck ‘em in carg0.

Upon this information I think Craig said something like, “Oh.”

3. Not only would he NOT allow me to pay him for his trouble or the board itself (which is absolutely beautiful by the way), he threw in a package of crokinole discs. Solid.

Tonight Craig, we drank to you. And it was locally craft-brewed suds to boot!

**Note** Much as it pains me to say so, my brother in-law Jamie went undefeated tonight. Doh!