January 11, 1990
Dear Everyone:
Rain, rain… went the wrong way!
We were promised a nice, wet Pacific storm this week; but those
greedy people up in Washington and Oregon kept it to themselves.
Boy, won’t they be
sorry when the whole Northwest washes out to sea.
This is called:
Status quo.
Once that meeting broke up, “Kevin” called
“Melanie” and me back in so that the three of us, with “Alma”, could
settle on a date and time that we can all go to “Pleasant Hill” for
another meeting. Getting
these meetings set up can be difficult because we all have
other meetings with clients
and each other. After
“Melanie” listed her schedule for next week, I explained “Kevin” and I
would be giving an “IDHS” presentation at 8:30 on Friday in
“Pleasanton”. We also
planned to go by the room where the presentation would be given the
afternoon before to make sure that the equipment was properly set up,
etc.
(Ever since “Kevin” gave his first big presentation
when the computer didn’t work and the hands-on demonstrations were set
up in a secured building that no on could get into, he’s been real fussy
about making sure that he can
show the system to people before he actually does it.
You can’t really blame him.)
Then “Alma” said:
Since “Kevin” and “A” are going to be in “Pleasanton” on Friday,
we’ll meet in “Pleasant Hill” in the morning.”
“WHAT?!!!”
I yelped out before I could stop myself.
“Alma” kept on going:
We’ll meet in “Pleasant Hill” in the morning and in “Pleasanton” in the
afternoon. “What?!!!” I
yelped again.
Just like the big pink bunny, “Alma” kept going and
going and going… I tried to back up and began explaining, very slowly
and using very simple words, that we would be giving the presentation
Friday morning. The room was
already booked. We would not
be able to reschedule on such short notice.
If she wanted to go to “Pleasant Hill”
after the presentation, that
would work.
…and going and going… “Alma” said that as long as
we were in “Pleasanton” part of the day we might as well stay on that
side of the Bay all day. I
was still trying to explain that we couldn’t be in two places at the
same time when we finally realized that when “Alma” said “morning”, she
meant the morning before Friday. Thursday
morning. The day that we
only needed to be in “Pleasanton” for a couple of hours.
Silly me.
I should have known.
If it seems like we complain a lot about “Alma”,
it’s only because she gives us so much material to work with.
In other news…
“Jeannie” is getting ready to go to London.
She has her passport, if no suitably warm coat.
Funny how difficult it is to find a winter coat in the stores in
the wintertime. And she’s
been practicing carrying as small a purse as possible.
She’ll borrow one of my suitcases, the smallest one she can stuff
everything she needs into, because she’ll have to carry all her own
luggage. A strong inducement
to travelling light.
She hasn’t said anything about it, but I expect
I’ll have a small, furry house guest for the duration.
Nothing much else going on, unless you count the
imminent cancellation of
Beauty and the Beast.
Those bumper stickers of mine could become collectors’ items real
soon.
Love, as always,
Pete
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