Mike Browne

Charlotte, NC - In the year 2000, two major milestones will have been achieved... Mike will graduate high school and leave for college and Fran and I will return to our roots as empty-nesters - but that's a future story. This story centers around Mike Browne and his last year as a resident in the Casa Del Browne.

Mike's senior year at high school was mostly uneventful.

He realized that college level athletics were more of a dream than a reality. Academically, Mike hit the proverbial home run with his senior exit project - a video he created on "The Art Of Brewing Beer." This was a topic of which he knew very little but needed to learn in order to survive his four-year college career.

Even though Mike turned 18 in January, acting like an adult is really one of the skills he has yet to master. But since he is a normal 18 year old, his primary goals (albiet quite limited in scope) cover the basics:

Finish high school with as little effort as possible.
Attend as many parties as humanly possible.
Work just enough hours so as to put sufficient cash in pocket but not impede party attendance.
Maintain as many female relationships as time (and stamina) permit.

It's good to have achieved your goals...

Mike attended his third high school prom in as many years. Each time he escorted a different nymphet. First it was Christie in '98, then Ashley in '99 and finally, to round out Y2K was Millennium Leslie.

But what made this year so interesting was that even though Mike took (Y2K) Leslie, Ashley '99 and her date all shared the same limo and hung together at the prom. Ashley '99 apparently didn't like that Mike paid so much attention to his date, Y2K Leslie, or her super model cousin.

Rumor has it by the end of the evening, many a female bridge was burned by young mister Browne as he did manage to piss off everybody except Christie '98 who fortunately doesn't live here anymore.

Don't ask me to sort out this mess. The result however was quite evident... just look at whose photograph is inside his souvenir prom picture frame At the right - NOBODY!

A Job Well Done...

Throughout Mike's life, I have a tendency to "rag" on him, sometimes a bit too much. You know what I mean, always harping on him to pick up his room, take out the trash, cut the yard etc. But in reality, I am very proud of the little shit. He did great in high school and was accepted by the first two schools to which he applied; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.

However, after performing a due diligence befitting Mike Browne, he determined that there was a significantly higher estrogen level at Chapel Hill than at NC State.

So the decision became a "no-brainer" - Mike was going to become a "Tar Heel" at Chapel Hill.

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell a "Tar Heel" is.