I guess things are a bit different nowadays. Last Saturday I was at a cocktail party, well… It was an awards presentation with buffet and open bar. Lots of married couples, but a few singles milling about.
A woman walked up to me and struck up a conversation on the usual subjects; Didn’t I […]

A while back I went to a Birthday Party. It was thrown by a friend who I’d met at ‘The Lab,’ where I was hired for my very first job in Data Processing. Now that was my very first job in computers, so it was quite a while ago, and the party took on something […]

A programmer goes to a bar one Sunday night. It is a TGI-Friday’s. It is a very normal, mainstream establishment. If there are no TGI-Friday’s in your town, think of an International House of Pancakes with margaritas. The Programmer sits at one end of the bar. At the […]