I decided (rather suddenly for me) to move Karl into my place yesterday. He seemed more than fairly surprised I would even ask him to do it and then continued to check with me to make sure I wasn't just playing a practical joke on him. Imagine that, me joking about*smirks ( Read more... )

I took Karl on as my science student. I'll be having him assist with my daily logs for my synthesis experiments here in my home lab. He will also maintain a portion of my other projects as time allows to teach him the process each one requires ( Read more... )

I have managed to meet with all of Karl's professors over the last week. A few of them are severely scatterbrained. I had a better image of this school before I'd met most of these people, now I'm left wondering. He seems to miss a lot of his classes, yet is getting fairly decent marks. I've collected a syllabus from each professor and asked ( Read more... )

Civilization has made some drastic changes in the ten years I've been away. Everything has gone electronic. Everyone owns a home computer and/or a laptop (which was hard enough to get my mind around I can assure you) a cell phone, pagers, digital pocket calendars, etc. Its going to take me some time to learn all the new technology alone ( Read more... )

Its so hard trying to get back into the swing of an ordered existence ( Read more... )