National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation shirt

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation shirt

I hope not because that’s the way I’ve done it ever since leaving my parents’ house at 17. We always had the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation shirt Christmas Day opening growing up, but that’s in part because our grandparents were there too. Once on my own, for some reason it seemed to make more sense (to me) to have a nice dinner and open the presents on Christmas eve. That left Christmas day to do whatever. Not much was open when I was younger, so it could be a day of quiet, relaxation and reflection. Some of my friends always did it on Christmas eve … especially as I recall my Catholic friends. Often they went to Midnight Mass and also had services on Christmas day. My church had a midnight service, but they more or less suggested adults only. And unless Christmas happened to be Sunday, there was no Christmas day service.

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation shirt hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt

Serious limitations to business pop up with increasing frequency. The legacy just isn’t capable of learning new tricks. In my time, I remember we picked up new business: the United States Postal Service, which had 60,000 accounts. The National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation shirt required that only one user could add a new account at a time, and that process would take up to fifteen minutes per account. That’s almost two years of solid data entry, working around the clock without a single snag. There was simply no way to speed it up. Multiple users would cause AbEnds – Abnormal Termination errors. My job was to find a faster way. My solution was to simply get another system to pretend to be a super-fast user that could enter an account in about a second. It was a hack that surrendered completely to the will of the legacy.

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