Wheels and the Promise of Wheels

Ladies, gentlemen, et. al. — today I'm going to try something unprecedented (on this-here page). I'm going to run a silent auction in order to get rid of some personal items from my Stash O' Author Stuff.

"Why?" you may ask.

Well, the short version is that a friend of mine is in a bind, and I know him well enough to know that he'd rather take a fork to the eyeball than take money from anybody. So I'm not going to open my wallet and give him money. I'm going to try to raise him some money, whic