May 2004 Archives

A snippet of a conversation between a Bohunk and his breasty companion.

"Yea, well you know, that was back when I only had a few credit cards"

Thank you and goodnight.

Monica and I are gearing up for the big move to Roscoe Village. We spent the better part of today dealing with issues at the new apartment. The three girls who lived there last have yet to impress me with their diligence when it comes to any form of house keeping. Today we secured an economy sized box of light bulbs to keep us for the foreseeable future, however I had to burn through a startling number of them; needing to replace an unbelievable 21 light bulbs throughout the 11 room apartment. How lazy do you have to be?

For six months now I have been working on an application to perform automated stock trading. The deadline for the last major hurdle prior to going live in the market, having it run against the clearing house's execution simulator, was originally set for the end March. Deadlines, as they are want to do, slipped and new problems reared their heads. Most recently I found myself with a major refactoring hurdle due to the invalidation of a number of earlier assumptions. Prior to today all runs against the clearing house's simulator crashed and burned in a matter of seconds. finally this morning I had a stretch of 12 minutes before an error. Later, after much fiddling I managed to keep it running for 18 minutes. After one further round of changes which left me feeling excited but guarded, I was able to run it for 32 minutes, right up to the closing bell.

Guy 1: "I fell asleep at work once and slept through the end of my shift. Do you know what the consequence was?"

Guy 2 stares expectantly.

Guy 1: "The boss approved overtime because he had to explain why I was still on the site"

Riotous laughter.

The End; and God bless the American Working Man.