Have you seen the CBS Sports ad?

It is a spot that talks about how we will all get together when this is over etc and they show different scenes from sports. Lo and behold there is a shot of the old barn empty with the court lights on the Jayhawk in midcourt. It caught me by surprise and made me catch my breath

Yep....sure caught my eye!!!

I did summer school registration for HDFL back in the early '80s (punch cards! Link ) While folks were setting up on the upper levels in the wee hours of the morning, I meandered down to the court and stood on the Kansas outline with the big "K" in the middle, all alone; an eerie feeling . . . . I didn't know I was in the middle of the "House that Wilt built" or who Phog Allan was (or why I should beware!) or who James Naismith was. A just knew it was something special.

RC

We met a few times at various HDFL events! I remember you fondly. I'm almost sure you sat next to me at a showing of Conan the Barbarian (Schwarzenegger) when I was tripping on LSD. If memory serves -- increasingly rare nowadays -- I busted out laughing at one point in the movie when everyone else was silent. You looked at me knowingly and said, "You were kind of alone on that one."

If it was you (it's all a purple haze now), thanks. And if it wasn't, I still remember you at various HDFL picnics and parties.

BTW: I turned out alright after all!

RCJHFL

Speaking of parking tickets, one of the great coups of my college career was my parking deal. I'm sure it is as bad today as it was in the 70's with parking. A parking pass was like a gold mine. So as a nobody, i was unable to any pther than the typical blue parking (or whatever the color) that allowed only the major lots. So I knocked on the door of the little old lady who lived at 1501 Crescent Rd. which is on the corner of Crescent Rd. and Naismith Dr., directly behind Learned Hall, the Engineering building. I promised that I would completely shovel her driveway whenever it snowed if she would allow me to park in here driveway. It was about 20 steps from the base of her driveway to the side entrance of Learned Hall. It was the deal of the century. I ended up doing some lawn work for her and some other stuff just to be a nice guy because she was a very sweet lady.

While I'm reminiscing about beating the system in college, I was on the board of SPE (society of petroleum engineers) all three years I was in engineering school. The SPE had a very unique situation with our soda machine. KU University vending had a tight-fisted control of all vending machines all over campus. But because we had a grandfathered arrangement and since the vending machine was a major source of revenue fundraising for the SPE we were allowed to keep control of our vending machine. We were, however, required to purchase all of our soda through KU Vending. But since we controlled the machine, we rewired one of the buttons to bypass the coin mechanism and installed a delay switch to that button so you could hold it for 5 seconds and it would dispense without any money. But we did not put soda in that slot, we put beer. I don't recall which beer it was, but it was the only beer can that was the same size and shape as a soda can. I want to say Schlitz, but I am not sure. In any case, the graduate students paid for the beer and in return we could drink it if we wanted. The vending machine was public access but located in the graduate student lounge. Amazingly, we were never caught in the three years I was associated with it. One of the super fun college hi-jinks that made college so fun. Unfortunately I was not a beer drinker, but being buddies with all the graduate students had other perks for an engineering student that worked a 40 hour per week full-time job. I had built in tutors whenever I was desperate.

Hope all the fellow RCB’ers are safe and healthy. We are good in Chi town, a bit stir crazy with the little one and badly in need of a haircut, but healthy.

Saw the ad, AFH and #15 from KC, was great to see