Re: Canary Wharf Drink
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:54 am
I would never get past the word OLAP. She would just switch off and tell me to go away. I get the same reaction when I mention anything to do with PC games. (In particular WOW.) My darling with is not interested in anything remotely seen as geeky. She tried showing an interest a few years ago and got bored very quicky. Saying that she is starting to show an interest in Scf-Fi programs on TV which is starting to worry me.If it does come to that, though, I offer you the following survival kit.
First, tell her that you hang out in OLAP Forums, but obviously don't point her to your own posts first; tell her that since she's interested in finding out about both your friends AND your work, she should look at OTHER peoples' posts. Send her off to my recent diatribe about the brain dead programming code of Microsoft Outlook. Follow up with Eric's erudite opus magnum on how to ask for a sammich while sitting in your Speedos watching da Bears play. (An instructive work on all things Chicargian which was let down only by the absence of any reference to the administration of Mayor Richard J Daley, the landmarks visited in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the significance of Meigs Field to Flight Simulator aficionados. And possibly a passing reference to the ER of County General hospital. I trust that these will all appear in the next volume.) Then it's on to one of John's discussions about the customer service standards of {cough} certain software companies. After that...
No, who are we kidding? By then the status quo ante will be restored, and she'll be back to telling you to take out the garbage and to never, under any circumstances, mention your work again or the people that it brings you into contact with.
Another marriage saved! Just call me the Dr. Phil of OLAP...