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I was writing a user introduction on how to use the CMS system and take advantage of some of the services; &nbsp; the "users" were experienced programmers, but not quite used to using CMS and VS/1, most came from MVT/TSO backgrounds. &nbsp; It was a labor (for you, ''labour'') &nbsp; of love and showed my passion for technical writing; &nbsp; I did most of it after hours. &nbsp; One of the gals (yeah, I am quite provincial at times) &nbsp; at the documentation group knew '''Script''' quite well, and her skills were sorely needed as the others just barely knew the fundamentals of that language, &nbsp; and I was stretching their skills of the '''Script''' language). &nbsp; So, she took on the project as she wanted a bit of a challenge on the different indentations and numerous illustrating examples and some other neat things that I was wanting to do. &nbsp; She enjoyed working on the project so much, she would take it home and proofread the hard copies, (as it turned out, most often in bed). &nbsp; The plot thickens. &nbsp; Sometime later, a few weeks as I recall, we had a department party (after hours), and that gal walked up to me and introduced her husband. &nbsp; He &nbsp; (all macho and all of 6' 5" or so) &nbsp; gave me the once-over, and said, "so <u>you're</u> the guy that keeps me up at night, losing sleep and &nbsp; ... &nbsp; &nbsp; <u>''whatnot''</u>." &nbsp; Yeah, it sounded like he underscored it for a reason. &nbsp; Various and wild swirling thoughts leapt to mind as he could've snapped me like a twig, and he did not sound like a happy camper, no siree, Bob. &nbsp; She explained that when she got to some really funny parts of my tome, she would nudge her husband &nbsp; (who was, of course, sleeping), &nbsp; to wake up and read this great funny pun. &nbsp; As it turned out, he had a very wry sense of humor, which I did not recognize on him at all. &nbsp; Ahhhhhhh, the good ole days. &nbsp; That tome was sure worth the time I spent on it. &nbsp; There were a lot of humorous &nbsp; ''Easter eggs'' &nbsp; in the examples. &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 09:44, 26 August 2018 (UTC)