tick...tick...tick

We are 19 hours and eleven minutes from the close of auction, with three bids in and 12 watchers waiting. While the current bid is nowhere near where I think it both will go and should go, nonetheless my heart, as that guy said to Dustin Hoffman in "Little Big Man," soars like an eagle, my enthusiasm tempered only by the shellacking the Jets just took from the Buffalo Bills.

My friend Stan's therapist used to say: "Life at best is only 80%."

I guess this would be that.