Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday to The Professor! Without question the smartest person I know, and the only one to have had his own university-funded laboratory chockablock with scientific apparatus, The Professor has spend the last year slaving over the story K. Steeze and I created during the first year of Project TROIKA, forging our plot and characters into a novel. Never in my life have I written anything even a tenth of the length of The Professor's manuscript, and I stand in awe of his accomplishment. He's a hell of a guy and a maddening, puzzling mass of contradictions. Most of all, he is my friend, and for that I am tremendously lucky. Happy birthday, Jon!