Since we can go to the movies for a buck apiece, Gayla and I decided to see something like Remember the Robinsons on Tuesday night. As the small child, aka Jonathan, is now squirmy and wiggly, he is not a good movie watching companion. After a multitude of phone calls we found a friend that was able to watch him (Thanks Joan!).
The movie starts at 7:15 and because it's dollar night we have to get there at least 20 minutes early to procure arm rests for our chosen seats, not to mention drop off the child, contend with construction traffic, etc we needed to leave rather significantly sooner than normal. We had finished the main supper meal in pretty good time and Gayla was running about getting things ready to leave with Jonathan.
Notice that main supper meal does not include dessert so I fixed Dave, Gayla, and myself a nice chocolate covered cookie with 5 chocolate chips on it. Dave and I ate ours pretty quickly, but Gayla was too busy. Whenever I saw her zip through the living room on her way to somewhere to do something I asked her if she was going to eat her dessert. After several times I asked her if I should help her out by eating one of her chocolate chips since it had fallen off the cookie and was trying to escape. She would pause a bit, say "NO!" and then continue on her way. After a few times she started to get irritated. Why that would happen I have no idea. But then Dave helped me figure it out.
He said, "You keep throwing the dessert interrupt so she has to push her registers onto the stack, process your request, and then reload her registers. That's slowing her down when she knows you want to get out the door." Hmm...I thought, "That's an excellent explanation!!"
She did eventually get her dessert and we made it to the movie early enough to procure arm rests. We got pretty good ones, the movie was good too.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
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A good 'slice of life' story and a good explanation of a real-life problem. However, I wonder if you noticed that the 'its' in paragraph 2, line 1, is the possessive pronoun form but it should be the contraction form. There are a couple of places where some punctuation is missing. It you would like a short lesson on punctuation, I could probably work you into my schedule in the near future at the special rate of only $120 per 50 minutes. Or if you give the password 'chocolate,' I could probably give you a 100% discount.
How exciting, someone posted a comment!! That ole possessive 'its' problem has been repaired. I do enjoy fixing problems such as that. Thanks for the tip and I think I'll go with "chocolate"
Heck, I'm an English teacher now, (it's easier than REAL work) and I didn't catch it. BTW, Dave's joke was funny, and I don't have a clue what it meant.
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