I would just like to say I've got some of the best friends that money can't buy. Today I received a package from my gaming buddies in Georgia and South Carolina. In the box there was:

• A Georgia license plate
• Bunches of pictures complete with comments on the back
• An entry tag for Final Round 10, the premiere fighting game tournament of the South (I've been to FR4 and FR8 )
• A copy of the Art of Fighting Anthology for the PS2 (I'm a massive SNK nut, but you knew that)
• A t-shirt with "Nerd It Up" splashed across the front from Digital Frontiers Plus (one of the sponsors of Final Round 10?)
• A can of "Rooster Booster" energy drink (either they're trying to get me hooked or there's a story behind it - not sure)
• 2 packs of Wick Fowler's 2-Alarm Chili Kit - Winner of the ICS's 1970 World's Best Chili award and my favorite way to make chili, period (can't get it here, sadly)

Yeah. I feel that Southern love :D