Joy

Joy is getting up in the morning, checking my pay stub to see what I'll actually be getting now that my yearly it isn't supposed to be a cost of living no matter what everyone calls it pay increase has kicked in to find *drumroll* I'm taking home ten bucks less a pay period than I was last year.

Joy is finding out the car won't start.

Joy is being able to get your wife on the cell phone to bring the jeep home so I can jump the saturn.

Joy is finding the battery on the saturn won't hold a charge, no matter that its a 2003.

Joy is having an Admiral give a walk through sometime in the day.

Irony

There is something deeply ironic about having a gun misfire and you end up shooting your own bullet proof vest. Even better
when you are a state legislator.

database question

I'm creating a *huge* table in mysql, at least 50 Gig. I have a C program reading a file from else where, picking out the info I want/need, then stuffing it into mysql with lots of insert into table (ra,dec,mag....) values () where ra and dec are indexed.

I noticed the amount of time it takes to do the inserts increases.

Does anyone have any advice on if it is faster to create my table with indicies, and stuff away, or should I create my table without indecies,
slurp in the 50-75 gig of data, then ALTER TABLE ADD INDEX?