Thanks to everybody who voted for Tulsa for the 2017 convention.
To everyone who didn’t vote for Tulsa, thanks for not voting for Tulsa.
Tulsa welcomes you all to the 2017 convention.
So Tom
Is it going to be in your yard? 
Are shoes optional?
…is this for a nudist convention…will David Russell be there ? Will Charlie Z get his locomotive from Dave Marconi, by then…?..!!!
Sean McGillicuddy said:
So Tom
Is it going to be in your yard?
Naw. Tom’s oil well will get in the way.
Well…
Since I find myself unemployed again, I’ve been helping “Sully” get his garden ready for the tour coming up June 14. Being from the North, I’ve never seen a water moccasin. Garter snakes, yes. “Blue Racers,” yes. “Hog Nose snake,” yes. Killed a timber rattler once. Water moccasin, no.
In the last 24 hours, I’ve seen 2 in this garden. The garden now smells of moth balls 'cause that’s said to discourage them. Seems to work on neighbors too.
Good Lord, Tom! You just got there. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
Oh! The job was awful.
In any occupation, there are right and wrong ways to go about it. In programming, the “right” ways are there because they make it easier to maintain and adapt the program because the requirements will always change.
The guy in charge didn’t believe in any of the “right” ways. His software was such a tangle you couldn’t touch it without breaking something else. And, of course, nothing I did to it was in his eyes “right.”
…don’t get me going on this…!!
…when any of you, that are new just to this hobby, for example…after you have experienced 50 years in the hobby…there will always the new guy that can find a new and better way…and maybe there is. But many of these new guys, don’t do any research, and find theses new and better ways, that fail to take into account some of the basic needs and experiences from the past, that are still very valid today.
Fred, same holds true in the copier industry. Those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.