And that was the first part of my contract for Sharon Young, complete. There wasn't much for me to do until my smartframe—mentally I'd dubbed it Naomi, for various personal reasons—returned with the correlations it had generated. That would be maybe an hour, I figured—which would probably sound ridiculous to nonprogrammers: spend four hours writing a program that runs for one hour, and that I'll never use again. Normally I'd agree; I've always considered any meal that takes longer to prepare than it does to eat to be a bad allocation of resources. This time, though, it was the only route that made sense. Doing the same sort of search manually would have taken several times the five hours—four coding, one waiting—I was investing in the smartframe. Don't work harder, as one of my old U-Dub profs had screamed at me, work smarter .