Finding, do you wanna come clean my house too....? I'll pay ya.....!!!!!

I'm a designer and programmer, Blossom. I'm working on a really big project to modernize the computer system for the part of the U.S. government that collects our income taxes.

Oh that sounds cool!!!

Will you pay my airline ticket too?

So you are a modernizer, eh malign?

Can eagle fly you over???

Good idea!!!!!

Or star and I could come in our helicopter....

That's the theory.

Most of the IRS's software is based on '70's technology.

We're trying to jerk them roughly into the '90's. (Yes, I said that right.)

Did ye get yer pilot licences??

So you're a retroizer.....very chique

I flunked. Starry, did you get yours?

Yes, retro is in.

So much so that they're thinking of scrapping the modernization idea entirely. That's the political fight that has my job somewhat uncertain, lately.

Oh!!! So 90's is more in than 00's?

Just bureaucrat standard, preferring to be a century behind.

Plus the vested interest of the folks who used to maintain the code, wanting to avoid losing their jobs when the old way would get phased out.

nope, sorry

no pilot license, that is

Hey, it can't be that hard to fly a helicopter.

You just keep the big fan turning fast enough so you don't fall, and the little fan turning fast enough so the big one doesn't spin you around and make you dizzy.

I think.

our fellow helicopter students were pretty cute though. Sorry blossom, we'll keep trying!!!!

that's ok.....

So you spent the entire class looking at the hot pilot guys? :-P

maybe that's why we flunked...

any rocker dudes?

yes, but he flunked too....

ooooooh.....I need a new rocker boy..

sign up for pilot lessons!!!!

haha:) I spotted a nice one in town last week!!! He looked like more of a bad boy than a rocker though. He works in the guitar shop.......

ooooooo sign up for guitar lessons then, even better.