I seem to have misplaced my Office 2000 disc. I lent it to a friend on the frisbee team, and she definately returned it to me, but I have no recollection of it ever making it out of practice bag.

Normally this wouldn't be such a big deal, but I needed to use Solver for a problem set last night, and even though it is free with Excel, you need to add it in yourself after the regular install. After deciding that scouring the net for a copy of this download or tearing apart my room to find the disc was not a great use of my time, I resigned that I might actually have to wait until I got to a school computer to do that part of the assignment, and so I wandered over to my friend's place for her birthday celebration.

On the way, however, I passed the "dorm" computer cluster. The computer cluster would have Excel!!! With all its add-ins!

One step into the computer cluster and I almost gagged. The overwhelming smell of BO hit me like a truck. I could only manage one minute to confirm they had solver before going to relieve my senses by eating massive amounts of chocolate fondue.

And the smell scared me off so much that I ended up doing the problems using calculus. Yep, it was that bad.

Posted by dahl at January 26, 2005 8:10 AM

I have visions of the two of you hammering the CD-ROM back and forth along the UF pitch.

I'm not sure why.