**Taters **- yay for new babbeh!! Hope he can go home soonest!
It’s pouring down outside. I ran to the store to pick up some stuff that didn’t sell. The girl who was working is going to give me some clay and glaze - she prefers doing low fire work and she has some high-fire stuff that she’s not using. So yay!! Plus I did sell 2 more small pieces in June, so I had a weensy check waiting for me.
Time to hit the studio and work on a few more things. work work work work work work work
Steven Wright says he was delivered by c-section too and that’s why he always enters and exits his house through the window.
Congrats, Taters.
I think you left it back in the Gates of Hell.
All this talk of old programming languages brings to mind an article I read in this month’s Mental Floss about the origins of Oregon Trail and MECC (now sadly gone to the Land of Corporate Wind and Ghosts). Man that took me back to my elementary school days. I need to see if Complicated Friend can get me back my old 1980s version of Oregon Trail so I can play it again. I finally made it to Oregon…when I was 24. Spent too much time trying to shoot squirrels when I was but a wee kitten.
Happy new nephew, Taters!
You can almost certainly find an emulator with a little googling. It’s how I drove myself absolutely batshit with Zork last summer. I will never win that damned game.
I love Oregon Trail!
Thanks for the bday wishes humpy! You have been officially nicknamed. 
Irk is well, what it always is. Irky. N.O.L. is a turkey and cheese sammich and a granola bar. It’ll keep me from bein’ hongry. 'Tis gray and overcast out. I want to go home. Too bad, however.
Yay for new nephew Taters! Hope he’s out of NICU soonest.
That’s the news from south Jawja for now.
Laundry time!
Congrats on the nephew, Taters!
I spent about 90 minutes in my studio - I may go back down later. I need to run to the credit union and the grocery store. That’ll kill an hour or so.
:::sigh:::
Can anything ever be easy?
So I did all the paper irk, went to the bank, was on my way to feed cats when I get message from mortgage lady that my signature is not visible on the documents.
Hey… at least this time when I scanned them I named them, remembered the name and found them without too much trouble.
So I canceled lunch with my friend to come back home to take care of shit. Of course none of my sharpies are working. I think I need to find a magic marker! I had forgotten that I also needed to send a letter telling them that even though I am moving 2 hours away that I am not quitting my job and that because I work from home I can work anywhere I have a phone and internet access.
Do people really get mortgages and then quit their jobs?
Don’t answer that, I already know, yes they do. They also go out and buy new cars and lots of furniture before the closing date instead of waiting and mortgage will fall through.
Swampy Sah-kid will tell you all about seeing me nekkid. Back when I used to work nights I’d ask him to please bring my laundry upstairs before I had to leave for work. I’d tell him if he didn’t bring my clothes up I’d have to go to work naked and he’d always say*** OH NO MOM!!! IF YOU GO TO WORK NAKED EVERYBODY YOU WORK WITH WILL GO BLIND!!! WE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!***
Stacy’s Mom I’m not
Smart ass kid he is.
FCM I never learned FORTRAN, never needed it. I don’t even know if there were FORTRAN programmers, I think the people who used it did their own programming.
Carrying around boxes of cards was nothing compared to dropping your cards and having to put them all back in order. It was a happy day when we switched to using terminals (remember CRTs), even happier when we didn’t have to share them, and even happier when we got them on our desks.
Oh well, time to get busy.
We switched lunch to Saturday, my friend is going with me for the home inspection and then we will go to lunch out in Hagerstown.
Happy for you AUNTIE TATERS
Laundry done, 90% packed for vacation. Life is good.
Formula Translation. Very much like BASIC. Those poor folks who carried COBOL cards!
Howdy from da cave! Dindin is all ready. Just waitin’ on OYKW and then we chow down. Ham, succotash, wild rice and rolls. YUM! I’s hongree!
Sari Sah-kid sounds like my kinda folk.
I got stuff done today. Yay. I went to the doctor (to get an ECG - I wasn’t actually sick. Well, maybe sick in the head, but ;)… ) and I went to the bank. And got rained on inside the bus as I detailed in the August rant thread.
Watching YouTube videos now.
Yeah, he had the emulator and all that. He emulates everything. He claims it’s for his Ph. D research, but I think he just likes emulating.
Good news everyone! Older Sister is definitely coming up the hill with her brood the week I’m on vacation! I’m trying to bribe them into letting me come along with them to the Old Shack in the Woods with a free ticket.
I didn’t realize we were allowed to discuss BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL in the MMP!
What madness is this???
Bah. Here comes the rain again, like in the song. Time for all bus drivers to open their sunroofs and make their riders unhappy.
I wonder if we’ll get an actual thunderstorm this time. In any case, I’m inside now, at least.
REM is X even or odd?
Do while X > 1
X = X -1
IF X = 1
PRINT “ODD”
GOTO END
ENDIF
IF X = 0
PRINT “EVEN”
GOTO END
ENDIF
ENDDO
END
I am so ashamed. Supper was Hamburger Helper. :o I did jazz it up a bit, adding onions and peas, so it as more casserole-esque. But, yeah, cheater supper.
$2.99 - is that TMI for you? Or too geeky?? 
I need a job. This crab gig ain’t what it was supposed to be thanks to lazy crabbers. dammit.
Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) likes Hamburger Helper.
I made some last night. We had no cream or milk, so I used alfredo sauce.
I feel so* cheap.*
Dindin has been et and the kitchen cleanded up. ‘Twas nummy and watermelon for dessert! Tomorrow I redeem my birthday coupon from the good local seafood place. Also, I get to go there again on Sunday cause MOG is takin’ me there for my birthday. So, even though it’s First Sunday Brunch over to the church house Ima go there instead cause, hey, local good seafood place!
What’s better, feelin’ cheap or a cheap feel?
$2.99 I figure that’s kinda like geek pron which is acceptable in the MMP.