Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, August 29, 2005.

Hey! How was your summer? Mine was primo! (For those of you who did not come of age in the drug culture of the 1970s, "primo" -- pronounced pree-moe -- specifically referred to a high grade of cannabis, but generally meant anything really, really good. The opposite of "bogus." Right. That's enough of that. Don't want a stupid linguistics discussion to bogart this letter.)

But, yes, my summer was great and in fact I'm having a little trouble letting go. Part of that is the romantic notion of long, lazy summer days. But mostly it's the cold reality of a crushing load of work, school support, and extracurriculars that are before me.

That being the case, I gotta figure a way to wedge these letters into the mix. For this week, I'm already behind, so I thought I'd at least get the comics flowing and hope time for commentary follows. This week's comic is pretty self-explanatory anyway. (For those wondering what a "pre-Windows" computer is, it's a computer that's pretty much useless in school. You know, a burnout.)