Special Update: The Last Day of Spring Break

If you get our daily newsletter, the ARMinsider, you may have noticed a spring break theme running through the Editor’s Notes this week.   In all honesty, those tongue-in-cheek messages sort of happened by accident, inspired by the fact that schools in the DC metro area were in fact on spring break this week—and so was insideARM senior editor Patrick Lunsford.  In the normal course of events, Patrick is responsible for producing insideARM.com’s daily news and opinion.  Having abandoned the rest of our content team for a wild spring break adventure (more on that in a moment), it fell to the rest of us to make sure that insideARM.com readers continued to receive important information about the ARM industry.  Left to our own devices, you also got a bit of spring break foolishness.  Patrick is back in the office today.  And since he had the audacity to put an abrupt end to my spring break musings—no update in today’s newsletter—I felt that I should post this special update.

As to the details of Patrick’s vacation, we share the following facts:

He was somewhere in southern Virginia.

The Internets had not yet reached that place.

He was gone Monday – Thursday this week.

When he left the office on Friday he mentioned something about always having wanted to go to a place where you could “hunt catfish with ¼ sticks of dynamite.”

Naturally, the members of our content team who remained in the office this week, picking up the slack for he who will not be named, wanted both to welcome Patrick back to the fold and make his transition from vacation to work as smooth as possible.  So (based on the facts above) last night after the day’s work was complete, we dedicated ourselves to making sure Patrick would know how much we missed him while he was gone.  The result became “Operation Patrick Luns-Fort,” and this is how it went down:

LunsFort's mighty walls were constructed nearby and then moved into place by a team of oxen.

Guarding the entrance to LunsFort while its fortifications are not yet complete.

THESE WALLS WILL HOLD

LunsFort, Est. 2011. (aerial view from the southern approach)

Thus, spring break comes to an end.  We are glad Patrick is back.  And we’ve learned taught a valuable lesson from Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka: “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”

Happy spring.

Michael Klozotsky is the managing editor of insideARM.com and was the chief cardboard specialist on this project.  Naveen Hariprasad (design engineer) and Jeff Hearn (structural architect) were also instrumental in the development of this scheme.