Thank you, Nilly! And you're right, tommyrot, but I had to poke my head in here to see Nilly do her thing.

If you have ever stared at a piece of code you wrote and gone: "What the frack does that mean?", give me an "Amen."

I am infamous in my work group for forgetting completely what I wrote (or worked on) more than two weeks previous. I tell them I'm like that guy from Memento and they understand a little. In self-defense, I've come to using very explicit field names, parameters, as well as lots of helpful comments in the code as to what does which, and explaining what a function does when it's called.

It's like leaving a trail of bread crumbs....

Hippo Birdies, P-C!

Happy Birthday Polter-Cow!

What is a Bruin?

n.

1. A bear.

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A Bruin is like a Red Sox player; only far more unsung; less concerned with grooming, teeth, and social niceties. A Bruin is paid less; performs for fewer people and never in the light of day; on skates, often backwards. A Bruin expects to have a stick taken to his head at any given moment, and play on. A Bruin might be locked out for an entire season, but knows only a comparable few notice never mind object, because hockey isn't baseball.

If a vampire, homicidal maniac, or Karl Rove is headed straight for you, when you find yourself in a room full of players from the New England Patriots, the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Celtics, and the Boston Bruins, go Bruins. Choose Bruins. Hide behind the Bruin.

I dunno, some of those Patriots are very large men, so as to afford more hiding-behind space.

Depends if you're going for concealment or defense, I suppose.

And thus, you reveal your non-native status.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday P-C!

Ugh, the snot monster is still residing in my sinuses. And to top it all off, I've had trouble sleeping the last couple of nights. Part of it is the can't-breathe-through-my-nose problem, but the other part is simply being wide awake when I shouldn't be. I don't know if it's because the Benedryl isn't working, or if the Sudafed is keeping me up long past the time when it was actually decongesting me. Feh...

HBD P-C!

So I was all ready to be Ms Super-Efficient today and go to the library before I have to be at work at 10, but no. I am thwarted. The library doesn't open until 10.

Sheryl, a lot of people find that Sudafed works like a stimulant. It's chemically related to adrenaline, so I guess that isn't a big surprise. I'm lucky that it gives me only a little of that, because it's the only decongestant that doesn't double as a sleep aid for me!