A Fool and His Money
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:28 am
Hello again, Muggle friends; Clark here! (And since all my old friends apparently changed their phone numbers (and addresses, emails and physical appearance), you’re all I’ve got... so thanks! And thanks especially to @Wendy Walker for her recent birthday tribute puzzle to me! I’m touched... and my therapist agrees.
So much has happened to me since we last talked... well, okay; maybe not so much “so much” as “a couple things.” Truth is, I’m still in Mom’s basement, but according to Mom, “Not for much longer, kiddo.” First floor, here I come!
I’m still trying to supplement my salary as a freelance APL coder with some odd jobs, including a brief stint as a spellchecker for Snellen eye charts, a half-day working quality control at the local Mars candy plant (I thought they wanted me to alphabetize the M&Ms...apparently, I was mistaken), and sadly, my calls to venture capitalists to back my idea for “Books on VHS” have gone unanswered. I’ve also listed my unbroken collection of BYTE and Compute! magazines and my old Infocom interactive games on Usenet, and it’s only a matter of time until my ship comes in (even though Linux Habitation is famously land-locked). But hope springs eternal... XYZZY, am I right?
Sadly, I still don’t have that special girlfriend in my life. Oh sure, I’ve had some dates... well, *a* date... okay, one “almost’ date. The night we were supposed to meet up at ComiCon, she called and said she had to clean the chimney that night and every night for the foreseeable future. She promised to let me know if anything changed, and although she hasn’t called yet, I do keep the TELEX humming 24/7 just in case.
And it’s also basebat season again! I never followed the sport all that much, but I thought “What the heck,” and I’m now the Uniform Resource Locator (read: Laundry Attendant) for our minor league team, the Linux Habitation Error Handlers. It’s a great opportunity, and I’m looking forward to actually meeting the team one of these days (They’ve played ten games already, but for some reason, the schedule they sent me had all the home and away games reversed, so I’ve been going to empty stadiums from the beginning. Oh, those crazy kooks and their rookie hazing
pranks, LOL!).
But wait, where was I? Oh yeah, Mom’s basement. No; I mean “where was I going?” Okay, according to Mom and my yearbook, “Nowhere.” But no really, what was I meaning to tell you? Oh right: I wrote another meta! They say “Write what you know,” so this one is called “A Fool and His Money.” Happy solving!
The meta answer is a 6-letter word.
A Fool and His Money
Crosshare
PUZ
PDF
Spreadsheet
Nudges on Wednesday.
Solution on Sunday.
Best of luck!
Clark
So much has happened to me since we last talked... well, okay; maybe not so much “so much” as “a couple things.” Truth is, I’m still in Mom’s basement, but according to Mom, “Not for much longer, kiddo.” First floor, here I come!
I’m still trying to supplement my salary as a freelance APL coder with some odd jobs, including a brief stint as a spellchecker for Snellen eye charts, a half-day working quality control at the local Mars candy plant (I thought they wanted me to alphabetize the M&Ms...apparently, I was mistaken), and sadly, my calls to venture capitalists to back my idea for “Books on VHS” have gone unanswered. I’ve also listed my unbroken collection of BYTE and Compute! magazines and my old Infocom interactive games on Usenet, and it’s only a matter of time until my ship comes in (even though Linux Habitation is famously land-locked). But hope springs eternal... XYZZY, am I right?
Sadly, I still don’t have that special girlfriend in my life. Oh sure, I’ve had some dates... well, *a* date... okay, one “almost’ date. The night we were supposed to meet up at ComiCon, she called and said she had to clean the chimney that night and every night for the foreseeable future. She promised to let me know if anything changed, and although she hasn’t called yet, I do keep the TELEX humming 24/7 just in case.
And it’s also basebat season again! I never followed the sport all that much, but I thought “What the heck,” and I’m now the Uniform Resource Locator (read: Laundry Attendant) for our minor league team, the Linux Habitation Error Handlers. It’s a great opportunity, and I’m looking forward to actually meeting the team one of these days (They’ve played ten games already, but for some reason, the schedule they sent me had all the home and away games reversed, so I’ve been going to empty stadiums from the beginning. Oh, those crazy kooks and their rookie hazing
pranks, LOL!).
But wait, where was I? Oh yeah, Mom’s basement. No; I mean “where was I going?” Okay, according to Mom and my yearbook, “Nowhere.” But no really, what was I meaning to tell you? Oh right: I wrote another meta! They say “Write what you know,” so this one is called “A Fool and His Money.” Happy solving!
The meta answer is a 6-letter word.
A Fool and His Money
Crosshare
PUZ
Spreadsheet
Nudges on Wednesday.
Solution on Sunday.
Best of luck!
Clark
OTC - thanks for a fun meta and great start to the week!