test please delete

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A couple of weeks later a Senior Systems Manager (my boss's boss) collared me and asked me what became of the student's work.



I followed my conscience and told the truth. "I deleted it."

She looked at me quizzically. "What? All of it?"

"Errm. Yes. Source code, object code, documentation, the lot. Everything. I have compared the libraries with the backups from before she came and they are intact. I have recycled her paperwork and her desk is completely clear. Nothing remains. Have I ... have I done wrong?"

She leant back in her chair - this greying middle manager with 20 years experience in Data Processing - arched her fingers and said: "I knew I did the right thing appointing her to you. Well done. Carry on."

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There's one of those HUGE baths that are meant for me and a pair of nubile Swedish twins ... but the wife says that bathroom is hers and I can have the other one.

Oh yes. And two bathrooms.

You should see the hot water tank! It is immense! It'll cost me a fortune if Mrs BI wants to use her Olympic class bath.

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Behave - he's a married man now!

Oh, I see. So that's why BATTS is being fed salad. The Missus is breaking him in.

Fair enough. It has to be done. All us married men have to be broken in at the start.

Hey, SockPuppet! Are you listening?

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Probly.

Currently on Vit C, Vit C + Zinc, Vit E, and Vit B.

All it really does is make one's urine go an interesting and expensive shade of yellow.

I'd be on the 75mg of asprin per day too, but I weened myself off that.

And the seven seas expensive pills for my poor old knees too...

I reckon you need all these supplements because of your poor diet.

There's not much nutrition to be had in students, you know.

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Will you still be here when I get here though?

I wasn't there when you were there and now I'm here you're somewhere else.

What a funny place TPD is.

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Sometimes, TPD is like a time-travellers' convention.

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There are those that have passed through before and left their mark, like in Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

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Some of us come along later and see those marks and leave marks of our own for others to follow.

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But some don't follow that path - they cross it and so only see cross-sections of TPD.

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Typically, they do so seeking gems like palinilaps and kilo-posts.