The evening of our second day there, I finally saw Aunt Delilah heading toward the bathhouse with her bath towel in hand. I was wearing my binoculars ...under the pretense of going nature watching so I was already prepared. I raced down a little used path that I had discovered and snuck up behind the women’s bathhouse just as my quarry entered and began to disrobe. I lay down behind a fallen log and trained my binoculars on the screen covering the upper part of the frame walls. I couldn’t see. And Iwas a healthy, clean-living baseball player. They totally bought it, andwhen Callie came back from camp, despite her howls of innocence, she losther car...and was grounded for a month. She also lost the privilege ofgoing to Prom, which was a biggie for her. She knew that the weed wasmine, and that I had blamed her....and as I later found, she held atitanic grudge.About 2 months after the incident, Spring was well under way in southernOhio. The sun was warm, the grass green and Spring. And this Auburn thing is just another rung in that ladder.”Mister Rogers had a wry expression on his face. “Mister Simon, you’re in agreement with the findings at Auburn?”“Mister Rogers, Auburn is but the tip of the iceberg. Haley’s participation at Auburn is due to the people at an engineering company called 3Sigma. I just quit my job at my former employer to go to work for 3Sigma. Some of their people are the ones who latched onto Haley. Have you ever heard of a PhD by eighteen?”“Never.”“We. Wrestling with Wendy was like wrestling a greased giant anaconda.Curse and I started a fitness and self-defense program together, immortality won’t keep you from getting punched in the face, it will just keep it from killing you. It won’t keep you from freezing your balls off either, as I found out during the Polar Bear plunge.It took at least 40 minutes in the sauna afterward for my nuts to descend again. I had to request that I not be birched. (The wacky Finnish smack each other’s backs with.
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