I just hit Gang of Fourteen.

Hey, I was in that! I was so proud, I'd never been in a gang before.

I'm going to spend the rest of the day feeling all street and whatnot. 14th street, apparently.

If you're interested in knowing how the (incredibly unlikely) CJ Roberts rumor got started: [link]

Timelies all!

Never been to a gay bar or a lesbian bar. Oh, well...

Nilly just posted her thank you for her World Tour.

I just misted up during a lull in training.

I would like to say again that Sophia is a fucking hero during the voting discussion. Cindy also did her part in trying to move us along.

Was that the Rafmun thread?

It certainly is now.

Hmmm. I searched the thread and got the "spaz" discussion. I assume the political capital discussion comes later.

I can't believe Sophia ever came back to Bureaucracy. I would have burnt out entirely.

The absence of a Subaru in your life?

I was hit on by women before I got my Subaru. And, I don't think I've been hit on one since I got it. Hmmm...must ponder that one.

I ... tend to not notice? Unless it's so obvious that it could be seen from space.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever been hit on. I don't know what it's like.

Well, there was that weird New Year's Eve where a girl was hitting on me on behalf of her friend or something.

Secret millionaire leaves fortune to Lake Forest College.

Like many people who lived through the Great Depression, Grace Groner was exceptionally restrained with her money. She got her clothes from rummage sales. She walked everywhere rather than buy a car. And her one-bedroom house in Lake Forest held little more than a few plain pieces of furniture, some mismatched dishes and a hulking TV set that appeared left over from the Johnson administration.

Her one splurge was a small scholarship program she had created for Lake Forest College, her alma mater. She planned to contribute more upon her death, and when she passed away in January, at the age of 100, her attorney informed the college president what that gift added up to.

"Oh, my God," the president said.

Groner's estate, which stemmed from a $180 stock purchase she made in 1935, was worth $7 million.

The money is going into a foundation that will enable many of Lake Forest's 1,300 students to pursue internships and study-abroad programs they otherwise might have had to forgo. It will be an appropriate memorial to a woman whose life was a testament to the higher possibilities of wealth...

In 1935, she bought three $60 shares of specially issued Abbott stock and never sold them. The shares split many times over the next seven decades, Marlatt said, and Groner reinvested the dividends. Long before she died, her initial outlay had become a fortune.

Marlatt was one of the few who knew about it. Lake Forest is one of America's richest towns, filled with grand estates and teeming with luxury cars, yet Groner felt no urge to keep up with the neighbors.

She lived in an apartment for many years before a friend willed her a tiny house in a part of town once reserved for the servants. Its single bedroom could barely accommodate a twin bed and dresser; its living room was undoubtedly smaller than many Lake Forest closets.

Though Groner was frugal, she was no miser. She traveled widely upon her retirement from Abbott, volunteered for decades at the First Presbyterian Church and occasionally funneled anonymous gifts through Marlatt to needy local residents.