MIKE!!!

Mike Rasmussen. My best friend in elementary school. Somehow, we got into the tradition of saying hello with three exclamation marks.

Parents: Cindy and Pete. Brother: Jeffery

We did instant messaging via fax in Wingdings font....lol! And played Sim City 2000. We learned a lot about computers in the 5 years we were friends in school together.

Even after I moved away from Eureka in 6th grade, we stayed in contact, and into our early 40s still are. Not often, and not as personal as we should be.

I spent many days at his house in elementary school. On the computer, watching Nickelodeon on their big TV, Rugrats, Doug, and even Star Trek Wrath of Kahn: eugenics war in 1996 when we were in 1994 or 1995.

The family had a fairly large seeming single story house, with a garage that did have a second story, on a large plot of land, which seemed even larger than it was because their driveway was shared with two other homes before it, and their backyard opened to the redwoods.

They had a big shaggy dog named Lucy, and a cat named Murphy, and I think another cat, too.

Mike and I were users of Windows, and therefore fans, and were against Mac computers. We had good arguments to favor of Windows over Mac, and occasionally had those arguments with the school computer lab teacher, Mrs Breen. We were absolutely horrible to her........ He came up with the nickname "Breenbutt." We were fifth grade.....

Both Mike and I played clarinet in the elementary school band.