It's getting altogether much too heated around here, myself included. And so, I'm gonna tell you about something fun that happened the other day when I was wearing my kilt.

I supervise a mess of students in my job. One of them, a really nice young man by the name of Robert, plays in a Heavy Metal "Thrash" band (no accounting for taste :P ) here on campus. His band played on Friday at 5:30 for one of the local dorm's "Friday Get Togethers". I'd seen them at another local venue, but I had a few moments while some software rebuilding processes ran, so I went over to the dorm to give a listen.

So while, I'm there...and I'm the "old guy" with gray in his beard and no hair on top on the edge of all these 19-21 years olds, the volleyball that some folks were using rolled my way. I tossed it back and the students said "come and play!" Nawww, says I, "what would happen if I went up for a spike and my kilt blew up? All the girls couldn't handle it!"

"Oh, I can handle it!", says this pretty latina girl, and she give me "a look". "Yeah, me too" giggles her girlfriend, eating their barbecue'd chicken. I laughed. One of the guys playing volleyball says "the kilt is cool.".. and within about 60 seconds I was in the middle of it all with a mess of kids twenty-five years my junior, totally welcomed in, totally cool because....

**I wore a kilt**..

......OK, well I have to admit, also because I knew the bass player in the band! :P

It was fun. I told a bunch of guys about utilikilts and USA Kilts and wrote down the URL's about twenty times.