Here at /prog/, where there ain't no Ten Commandments and a man can raise a thirst, I often marvel at the astute observations being made when the Internet is looking for a few good men and proggers step up to the plate. Being involved in a Grand Challenge programming project, I approach /prog/ as my Schlupfwinkel where I can escape from the heavy burdens. My other escape route is a pond nearby called Green Lake, where I exercise my code-addled limbs and I hunt for treasure below the high and low diving boards of East and West.
In this fading summer of 2018, for the first time I keep finding one Apple Watch after another at the bottom of Green Lake below the high-dive. The first one at WGL was still functioning but it said "Enter Passcode" so I could not get in and explore it. I turned it in to the WGL lifeguards. Although I have been looking for two gold chains lost in the lake, at EGL I keep finding one Series-Three black Apple Watch after another. The lifeguards have been charging up the watches and pressing some kind of "medical response" button to find out if the owner has any allergies or other medical conditions, and what personal-contact phone-number to call to let them know that Crawdad Man of Green Lake has found their four-hundred-dollar watch for them. Plus I found something called a JawBone and a black watch called a TomTom.
Before I swim, I lie under the Yum Yum tree and I read a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series by British author Lee Child. I have been reading them all summer, three days per book, and I am on my last one until the next one comes out in November of 2018. Heh-heh, it makes me want to write a fictional account of my work on the Grand Challenge as if I was a Sherlock Homeless like Jack No-Middle-Name Reacher. But we all have idle fantasies of what we would like to achieve in life. I gave up on all such aspirations years ago, when I realized that I am and always will be a Total Luzer. I re-fashioned my ambitions to want to be a Happy Luzer. Give me a lake to hunt for treasure in, and a series of exciting novels to read, and a dream-life marginally more exciting than my Real Life, and I am a Happy Camper, Dan.