So a fun note on my housing situation. As I’ve said, I’m subletting from a guy over the summer. It was sort of ambiguous as to whether or not this guy was going to leave his bed in the room or get rid of it. I called him a coupled days ago to clarify, and he said he’d sold it. No big deal, I thought, I’ll just take a mattress.

 

So I’m getting up yesterday morning to pack the car, and my Mom says, “You can’t take that mattress, we need a place for your sister to sleep when she visits in July.” I didn’t really ask questions like, “couldn’t she sleep on the guest bed we already have set up?” because logic does not work in my home. I just decided to suck it up and I’ll buy an air mattress, because I like to travel light, and its likely I’ll be moving around a lot in the next 10 years. No problem I thought, I’ll just order a bed online, and crash on the couch in the math club office for a couple nights, and take a shower at the apartment.

 

 

 

Operation Klaus was conceived by Cowboy and myself, in the last days of 2007, as the Math Office was beginning to take shape, but its true origins go back to that legendary day at Fazoli’s when the legendary figure known as Klaus came back to visit Purdue. It was from Klaus’ friends that heard the legend of showers in the CS building, placed initially in the blueprints as a joke, and then forgotten about until they were actually constructed.

 

The purpose of operation Klaus was simple, find these showers, and gain access to them.

 

With Cowboy’s go ahead I initiated Phase 1: Recon.

 

I went to the new CS building in all its shinny new glory. The doors were unlocked, so I easily breached the perimeter, exploring the building I found them to be so arrogant that there were blueprints placed all over the place in glass cases. The legends where that the showers were in the basement, so we proceed there. I then took the above picture of the blueprints, it was clear that showers were in these bathrooms as the legends foretold.

 

Going into the restroom I headed to the back to investigate. I found a door, as the blueprints indicated, but sadly it was locked with some mechanism next to the door obviously restricting access to the CS graduate students. This clarified why they had placed the blueprints in a public place, because they could.

 

Temporarily thwarted, I made me escape. Curses! Who would ever expect computer scientists to use technology!

 

I was lucky enough to be able to spend the night at the apartment of good friends John and Alex, as tertiary occupancy was in transition between Ryan and Andrew. This allowed me to offer use of the Math Office, and its glorious couch to a good friend stranded on campus over the weekend because his car died.

 

Many thanks to John and Alex for their hospitality, and there suggestions of how to carry out phase 2 of Operation Klaus.

 

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