Salary came, check from NY not yet (although Sima has IM'd me that he personally put it into a mailbox).
Yet another thing came in the mail. Lena got an invitation (again!) to take a part in some exchange program over the summer, three weeks in Western Europe (not that they have anything against Eastern ;), probably nothing exactly for free, I'd expect to fork some 5K$, but it'd be an investment and it'd count as a (AP?) credit for her. And it'd be a vacation of her dreams. And it's something that's based on some program put in force by Eisenhower's govt, so it's possibly at least partially paid by tax money. And she got invited to it by sheer merit.
So would daddy, son. We don't exist. Whatever paperwork we got before the aitches expired is what we got. Can't expect to get anything more than that, as long as the current paranoid setup is up. So, can't leave the country. Or we can, but can't expect to be allowed to return.
Dang, she can't even try to get a driver's license. I bet she'd be a better driver than any of her classmates who already drive to school.
Ain't this America something to see?
Did something for Gary today. He has a new team again, and may have some work for me. The team may be only this one chinese guy, Brenton Cheng, and the stuff we're doing seems, from the emails, to be zod.
Also, Joe reports that he edited the script I sent him, to replace the paths according to the layout on his disk. He contacted Berix and got from her a list of files to check - they were all already in the script - and he went down that list and checked each, and said it builds properly and when run writes the registry like it should.
According to her rules, when someone on UA needed help about dynamically painting some elements on a form, I helped but added a comment: „Note that anything that flashes, dances or sings on your form is very likely to annoy your users really fast, so use this sparingly. “
Also, about grocery cards:
And not only fraud by third parties, but merchants themselves. Few years ago there was a case where a customer had an accident in the grocery - either slipped and fell, or something fell from the top shelf on his head. He tried to sue the grocery. The chain pulled his record and tried to prove he was an alcoholic by simply knowing how many times he bought beer. That's the purpose of the discount card :).
BTW, I have an anonymous card now. My old card wouldn't swipe, so I asked for a new one. I was supposed to fill the form first and then they'd have to process the info... except that I said I forgot my glasses and asked to take the form home to fill and submit later. The cashier said no problem, and swiped the unprocessed card. And it worked. IOW, no processing ever happens - you get the card just to get statistically tallied, and they don't actually need your name. Specially when they have to have the privacy statement and aren't allowed to sell it (and they rather use the data themselves). At least I hope I've saved one tree this way - I'm not getting any junk mail from this grocery.
Of course they could have my complete record whenever they wanted - I'm paying with a debit card, it has my name, and they must keep that on the record for at least a while in case some fraud was going on.