Uncashed Chips

These were a "Welcome To Germany" present way back at the very beginning of my German adventure.  I'm not a gambling man (been in a casino once and that was for a birthday meal) and so they've lived in a drawer ever since.

It was a Monday and a half.  I really struggled to get out of bed this morning - the work in the garden over the weekend took a terrible toll on my hamstrings and consequently I'm moving very slowly and gingerly.

And because my colleague is on holiday, I got the mandatory "Here's something you've never seen before" E-mail.

I consider myslef quite capable at English but I struggled to make any sense of how IBM descibed the problem.  Their text is as follows "Under normal conditions, all save area chains should end with a save area pointed to by CEECAADDSA. In this case, the save area chain terminated with a back chain pointer of 0."

My first question was "What's a 'save area chain'?"  The answer I got is all too typical.  It was, technically, correct but so unhelful as to be worth a slap.  The answer I got was "A save area chain is a chain of save areas"  I did not ask what a CEECAADDSA was in case the asnwer was "It's an ADDSA of CEECAs" and I ended up gibbering and laughing in a padded room.

I shall try a different tack tomorrow but I suspect I'll be continually frustrated by these gnomish texts.

On the plus side it was a beautiful day weather wise.  No jumper or sweatshirt for me, just a t-shirt.  Both windows wide open in the office and the fan running for the first time this year.  I still have colleagues wearing scarves indoors.