He played some football, basketball, and baseball, the rare three sport letterman. Not nearly well enough in any of them for college, but well enough ...o leave a mark in a small town. As he liked to tell it, he was a little too small for football, too short for basketball, and couldn’t hit a sinking curve ball. But, in a small town in a public school conference of small towns, he did just fine. The place was about 3,800 people, located in the far western center of the state and he couldn’t wait. With it there neither the UN nor any of Iran’s creditors could get at it by suing in international courts, and in the process tying it up for years. Thimble Shoals simply did not play that game.I was sure there would be plenty of people with their hand out.Half the oil funds was going into rebuilding Iran. With the military gone and the government corruption gone, it would be more money into infrastructure than ever before.The other half would go to the US as restitution to pay all the cost of. However a representation of it would be better than nothing," I observed."Yeah," Nikki firmly told us. "There's no way to convey the images, the aura colors, or the sense of majesty which you present when one of us sees you. And there's no way of recording it unless we can better understand where it comes from and can find some means of capturing it. Maybe someday someone will find one, like the experimenters of the late 19th centuries who discovered how to record photographs in tintypes.. From the off Ramp, as we started down I had a good view of my shop. There were a bunch of cars stopped in the street outside it. "Oh hell," I said to myself. Then to Julie I said, "Better step on it, Babe, there's something happening down there."She didn't answer, but drove us to as close as we could get. We parked at the curb and got out. We had to walk the half block left to get to my place. There were big vans with TV logos on them, men and one woman with cameras pointed toward the entrance,.