{"id":2172,"date":"2007-11-07T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2007-11-07T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:07:25","slug":"first-in-last-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2172\/first-in-last-out\/","title":{"rendered":"First In, Last Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

LIFO<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>an acronym which stands for last in, first out<\/strong>. In computer science and queueing theory; a historical method of recording the value of inventory (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

FILO<\/strong>:<\/em> an acronym which stands for first in, last out<\/strong>.\u00a0I may or may not have invented the term but It pretty much describes many aspects of my life up to this point\u00a0in time. It’s also the\u00a0name of a dough, an\u00a0ale house in the U.K., and\u00a0a clean alternative to\u00a0the F word\u00a0when I’m around my sister’s children. (Geno Petro)<\/p>\n

Rewind<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me\u00a0begin by saying that not every event\u00a0in my life\u00a0<\/em>is a funny episode. There have been a few that brought me to my knees in quick fashion and many more woes that still rent space in my head when I allow them to. It’s just that I inherited a skewed\u00a0sense of humor from my mother\u00a0along with a ‘this too shall pass’<\/em>\u00a0point of view.\u00a0Such an axiom hangs framed in her kitchen to this day. And\u00a0being the\u00a0first born\u00a0in a short but staggered line of siblings, the joke, in those early days,\u00a0was apparently on me<\/em> according to the family picture album. Oh, and my name back then\u00a0was Genie. Little Genie.<\/p>\n

…which somehow became Eugene<\/em> by Grade One. Nobody bothered to tell me this (or if they did, it didn’t register) and I vividly recall the nun on that first day, Sister Mary Timothy (so very\u00a0confusing, were those\u00a0hermaphro-monikered creatures in long, black habits), repeating the roll call words, Eugene…<\/em> Petro, Eugene…Petro<\/em>, up and down\u00a0the aisles\u00a0like a resounding echo (yes, that would be an echo within an echo) off the\u00a0leaded paint block walls and\u00a0buff waxed linoleum floors of St. Michael the Archangel Classroom 1A, until she was suddenly standing above me<\/em>, pitched to scream, the <\/em>black Attendance Book<\/em>\u00a0clutched\u00a0with gnarled fingers raised overhead…<\/p>\n

“My name is Genie,” I\u00a0believe I said, which was followed by an\u00a0immediate explosion of laughter from my new found peers. I\u00a0realized at once I should have\u00a0taken my\u00a0Eugene<\/em> from the old lady, and been done with it. \u00a0I swear, I thought she was going to murder me in my splintery, ink stained\u00a0desk. God and all his homeys were very mean to little children back in the early Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LIFO:\u00a0an acronym which stands for last in, first out. In computer science and queueing theory; a historical method of recording the value of inventory (Wikipedia) FILO: an acronym which stands for first in, last out.\u00a0I may or may not have invented the term but It pretty much describes many aspects of my life up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":436,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/436\/blogoff-post-59-how-to-explain-rss-the-oprah-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":2172,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #59: How to explain RSS the Oprah way . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Problogger \u2018How To\u2026\u2019 Group Writing Project, Back in Skinny Jeans teaches us \"How to explain RSS the Oprah way\":The technical acronym for RSS is \u201cReally Simple Syndication\u201d, an XML format that was created to syndicate news, and be a means to share content on the web. 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