: It cannot pull data from Excel, SQL, or CSV files; data must be manually entered for each print job. Hardware Restrictions
Over the following weeks, the program's patrons kept arriving. Sometimes it was a one-night visitor with a pocketful of poems. Once it was a girl who taught him to stack oranges into a small pyramid and told him about the physics of balance as if metaphors were law. Marcus returned more than once and avoided the scar when it began to show in conversation; Tom let the silence be a clean thing between them.
Each concoction made his apartment feel more like a bar he’d once worked in — low light, the clink of ice, a jukebox that always had the perfect song cued. The program's animations grew bolder: a barstool swung into frame, a patron appeared as a silhouette and tipped their hat. Tom started to set out two glasses, half-expecting the room to fill.