Up early coding…
Yesterday was partially spent making Aunt Gigi’s computer available for programming use, and Grandson #1 was up at 6:30am coding on it this morning.
It reminded The Rookie of working between quarters at Auburn starting at dawn on the terminals in the hall closest to the mainframe for best response.
This practice worked well except during sorority pledge week when the few users would be thrown off the mainframe for 15 minutes while the program ran to work out the pledge schedule for that day’s events.
The Rookie was always amused when the girls who came from the dorms to collect the printouts at 7am would jump when they first saw a guy drinking coffee in the hall waiting for their program to finish. They generally relaxed after a minute when they realized it was just a nerd who wasn’t hitting on them when they showed up in public in robe, slippers, and bedhead. :-)
