I had a meeting with my new colleague today to help him make some changes to the high fidelity prototype (demo) of our web application. He has no experience with html. That is okay because business analysts in general don’t really need to have html coding in their skill set. For our team’s application, it helps if you know it though. Plus some CSS and (fugly old-skool) javascript. We’ll start with html, which is pretty easy to learn and we’re just making little tweaks to existing files. Easy peasy as some say.

Okay, so he was sharing his screen and I was walking him through his first change to an html file. At one point, I told him to hit the CARRIAGE RETURN!!! Whut??? Oh, do you mean the “Enter” key? Duh. Are you showing your age KW? Yes! We had a good laugh about this and y’all are laughing too. Gah! In my defense, in the training I have been doing all week, we were often shown files in which each line ended with “CRLF”. Carriage Return, Line Feed. Welcome back to the 1970s/1980s.

New Colleague is quite a bit younger than I am but not a kid. I don’t think of myself as a good teacher but I am a good coach for a person who is a quick learning autodidact. Like my new colleague. We were online for 2.5 hours and he had little html tweaks to make in random spots all over the damn demo. We did the first tweaks together, then I suggested that I would be quiet and let him find his way until he needed help. And so I did and he needed so little help that I am thinking he might be my replacement one of these days. That’s a good thing

In the middle of this session, a guy in a neon green vest came up to the door and asked, “Is that your Subaru in the street?” Yes, yes, it is Cygnus. Cygnus was in the street because Mooon Yooonit was scheduled to arrive in the afternoon with the Lyme Lounge in tow and the GG would want to back them into the driveway. But some folks were doing tree work for the city and I had to move Cygnus into the driveway. I texted the GG about the situation and when he arrived he had to park down the street a bit. OF COURSE, all the young tree dudes were enamored with the Lyme Lounge.

Dinner of porterization at Dexter’s Pub and g’night!

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