Last Friday, Addison got Carl to drive him down to SJ to visit the college he will be attending in September. They were having an orientation day with plenty of seminars and chats. I think he had a blast, given that he completely talked my ear off for a full half-hour after he got home. And? Carl took him to see one of his friends, and if there ever was a reason for Carl to blog, it would be to record the conversations with the kinds of friends he has.
How was Addison’s day? Well, let me try and quote him*:
“I got to use a plasma cutter! And Ricky almost sold me a car!”
I say “let me try and quote him” because every time I tell a story, Addison says I screw up the facts. I say it often makes for a better story. 
Put the audience out of their misery in trying to keep up, Add – post to the blog yourself. 
(Why yes, he does read my blog. The boy needs to know what’s going on in the house while he’s at work.)
So he got to use a plasma cutter in the automotive department – not because he’s doing an automotive course, no, he’s taking computer programming and they don’t use those sorts of things – but because he met a guy there he knew and he let him try. Apparently it was more fun than peeing your name in the snow.
And Ricky’s car was an old something-or-other but really nice and never winter driven as it lived in Florida. only seven hundred dollars! All Addison would need now is another three thousand for insurance, a buddy to help fix it up and oh yeah, his driver’s license.
At some point he did get around to telling me about the information he got on student loans and places to stay, with inside tips from his buddy – like finding a basement apartment that has a middle aged woman upstairs and she’ll cook for you. Sweeeet. He met the instructors, two (I think) who were there when Ron and I attended.
Did I mention that the course Addison is taking is the same one Ron and I took, and where we met? So, little bit of a head trip there. Yes, the instructors remembered Ron and eventually me. The odd bit is that when we went, it was a tough course. When I look over it now, it’s hard, but nothing Addison can’t handle.
After all, he was taught by the best.
How odd. My kids also attended their (first of many) freshman orientation days last week, and my son got to use a plasma cutter. He made me this little square brass thingy which is hollow, has a perfectly round ball in the center, and has card suit icons on the sides. They said he was a natural, although he’s not planning on going into a field that would use a plasma cutter.
And a friend of his tried to sell him a car too.
They sat in on a history and a psychology class. They’re very excited. I am not. Empty nest all at once as the triplets leave for college. Sigh.
Hey all. Sorry I haven’t commented in a while – or emailed. I do read. We are in the same dilemma as you with moving – can’t find anything! Anyway, I just wanted to ask if you’d seen the article about Carolee LeBlanc (homeschooler). She’d taken her son to enroll in a Community College Course (16 yrs), and they said they don’t except homeschoolers. Maybe she needs to be in contact with you, because obviously they do! Congrats Ad, on college. Sounds fun. Take care all! Miss you lots!