Re: Hello Acme

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> On 06.09.2023 20.14, SpudTater wrote:
>> On 06/09/2023 09:31, BeH wrote:
>>> On 05.09.2023 09.53, SpudTater wrote:
>>>> On 05/09/2023 08:20, BeH wrote:
>>>>> On 04.09.2023 21.44, SpudTater wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all, it's certainly been a while.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well hello there Mr. Tater. How is life...?
>>>>
>>>> Haha, well, got an update for you right there, as it's no longer
>>>> Mr. Tater, but Mx. Tattie. And very much happier for it. Still
>>>> Acme's very own potato, though!
>>>
>>> All righty then... So I use 'they' when I talk about you behind your
>>> back now? Not that I'll ever do that... talking behind someone's
>>> back, I mean.
>> 
>> You got it! I's a they.  8^)
>> 
>>>> I stuck around in Edinburgh after university, have a wife, a
>>>> programming job, and two cats. The years have kinda flown by tbh.
>>>> After leaving Usenet behind, have pinged from LiveJournal to
>>>> Dreamwidth to Facebook to Reddit to Mastodon. Maybe I should have
>>>> stuck right here!  8^D 
>>>
>>> You would have been pretty much on your own here most of the time. I
>>> never had a facebook account and I feel utterly vindicated and
>>> rather smug about it now.
>>>
>>> So two cats? Merlyne has a cat. I have no cats. Also no wife. Or
>>> job... I spend a couple of years as self-employed consultant after
>>> rage-quitting and then retired and moved to the countryside.
>>>
>>> Can I ask what kind of work you do?
>> 
>> I'm just a common-or-garden Java programmer, nothing too exciting. 
>> Getting into front-end stuff more now, though.
> Careful with that. You may have to interact co-operatively with actual
> end-users... (Mostly kidding - talking with real people can be
> enlightening.

Ok. I'll call you soon.