re: Bonfire weather

I hear ya. I completely wasted my senior fall semester for bonfire, and don't regret it a bit (at least not NOW that I graduated.) Hometown buddy and I, who were both actually pretty good students, decided we were building that sumbitch. And we did at the expense of a completely wasted semester, pretty much 24/7. I loved sitting in a swing 40' off the ground tying in logs with the November rain drizzling and the wind blowing, smoking a cigar and occasionally sipping on my bottle of Southern Comfort.

I've lived a good life, but nothing has come close to those days.

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Or hey, studying. Which the Corps did a good job of enforcing back in the day. I can't speak for AF pukes like TBird, but the Corps ensured I made it through CE.

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USAF are the brainiacs of the military (admittedly, that ain't sayin' much ). We usually got shite from the other outfits in the dorms for placing such an emphasis on CQ. It was almost a bit of an ostracization scenario if you were a Tbird and not in O.R. Simpson.

I was not

I don't know what to tell you. The spectacle I would guess is about the same as the old days and it should be a good time. But back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the fire department height limit for decades was 58 feet but nobody paid attention to that; it was always the senior class's number. 79 feet my senior year, for example. Now I think it is 40'ish. A 40' bonfire is still pretty damn impressive, though. (I have no idea whether the planned height in '99 was 99 feet - I sorta doubt it.)

The main difference to me is the level of involvement from students in building that bastard, but on the night of the burn visitors will have no clue about that. To anybody who got into it before '99 the building was the important part, and with the stack being easy walking distance from your dorm, a lot of us spent too much time out there. But that's just me being an old curmudgeon. I'm sure they put on a good show and it is a worthwhile trip for you. I'd like to see it someday. BTHO LSU.