Raccoons

Our first Nachos project in my Operating Systems class was due tonight, and we made it! We will see if it was right, but at least it seemed to be running. It spun off threads and waited on them to join, and created locks, semaphores and condition variables for use in critical sections, and did priority scheduling. We were done by nine, and C was waiting for me outside to walk me to the car. By the car, out on the parking, a whole family of racoons was sitting: Mom, Dad and two kids. They stared at us suspiciously. We had caught them at digging through tree bark and soil that had just been spread over the beds. We stopped and looked at them for a while, they were so pretty. Their eyes and their fur glowing in the moonlight. They looked so soft and cuddly, I could have wrapped myself up in them. They looked at us too. The young ones seemed a little startled and were trying to hide behind their mom, but when they spotted C pulling something out of his pocket they got all curious. They were probably hoping for us to have some food. Actually, they would hardly give us space to get into the car, once they realized we might be carrying something eatable ...