BSE, duke university, '74 and '05

last night mike and kelly moved into our condo for the week until they can (hopefully) move into their new house.  yay for new roommates!  mike immediately put himself to work fixing our dryer.  because he's my friend like that.  (and because i told him in advance that his services were needed.)  my dad did diagnostic work last weekend, taking the back of the dryer apart, running various dad-created tests to figure out which part was responsible for the fact that the dryer wasn't heating clothes that were put in it.  which is the dryer's JOB, so this was a problem.  his best guess was that the heating element had broken, so he left the back of the dryer disassembled, and labeled all the wires that would need to be reconnected so that even i could probably put it back together once the new part arrived.

the new heating element came in the mail this week and then so did mike (well, he didn't come in the mail...), and mike put it all back together again.  best moment:
him: "oh, your dad labeled all the wires - perfect.  this is exactly how i would have labeled them."
me: "well, you both do have the same degree from the same university, just 31 years apart.  so i'm glad to see that you think the same way."
[note: mike's degree is in electrical engineering and my dad's degree is in civil engineering, but CLOSE ENOUGH.]

thank you, duke, for providing an education in how to fix dryers (or something like that).

and ohmygoodness, GO DEVILS!!