Austin Dinner Ticket Auction

Dads Gotta Dad

A former colleague of mine from finance, and owner of the quant F100 Tool Company, purchased one of the tickets for this coming Friday night dinner in Austin, but he is unable to attend due to a family event (a dad moment that is the culmination of years of work). So, there is one ticket now remaining.

A Rounding the Earth Dinner Gathering in Austin, Texas on Friday, January 20 (Booking)

He asked me to auction off the ticket. Understand, an auction game is the sort of fun finance guys have. Some of them get weirdly complicated, which reminds me that I have email confirms for bets over whether or not the dollar would still be the global reserve currency in Year N, for various N. That just got interesting with Saudi Arabia publicly announcing that they’ll now trade oil for other questionable paper products (the run on toilet paper suddenly makes more sense).

I digress.

So, there is it: one ticket is available. Auction in the comments. Highest bidder at 6 PM Eastern tonight gets the seat, assuming they can send me the payment by Paypal (mathew.crawford@protonmail.com) within the hour, else I’ll move to the next bidder and so on.

It’s as shame that Bill can’t join us. The last time I saw him, we watched my St. Louis Blues pull even with his Boston Bruins in Game 6 of the 2019 Stanley Cup from a hotel lobby the night before a meeting we flew into Atlanta to attend. My Blues won the deciding Game 7 a couple of days later. I’d prepared for him a small box of hockey cards of “most important players to play ice hockey in Boston in the modern era”. This included most of that 2019 Blues roster.