A children's story..

Years ago, a kid from a bad part of Los Angeles was accepted to go to agood college that was near Chicago. "Yay!" he said. "It's far away from Mom and Dad, and I'll learn a lot!" He was told that he'd have a roommate, which was new and exciting for him. Being an only child, he'd never had a roommate before, or even had to live with anyone else but Mom and Dad.

So he wrote his new roomate about things like who was bringing the stereo (the roomie was) a TV option (none), and that his roomie could use his computer if he needed to. He was very happy; wow, this was going to be exciting!

Years later, it's still exciting. Happy birthday to my first Northwestern friend, acb, still around after all these years.