Insanity is Hereditary…

…mostly you get it from your chil­dren, but if you are a col­lege pro­fes­sor who is also a pro­gram­ming team advi­sor, you can also get it from your stu­dents, espe­cially when they call you on their trav­els to share with you their more, ah, inter­est­ing adven­tures and observations.

Appar­ently one of those obser­va­tions included a Honda Civic hatch­back, with a gun­rack in the hatch­back. Not an empty gun­rack, either, a gun­rack with two shot­guns and a rifle (or maybe the other way around) in it.

Accord­ing to their lat­est Tweet, said stu­dents are busily study­ing in prepa­ra­tion for tomorrow’s con­test. Not that I am going to check up on them, because they are at a dif­fer­ent hotel. That is partly eco­nom­ics and partly an attempt to save my san­ity and allow me to get some sleep tonight.

Truth be told, though they may make me want to bang my head against a wall on some occa­sions, and make me long for a large, potent Adult Bev­er­age on other occa­sions, it is actu­ally nice to have some enthu­si­asm and humor among my stu­dents for once…