March 30, 1990
Dear Everyone:
Busy, busy, busy.
Last week, I had no less than 2 4-hour classes, plus 3 meetings,
assorted non-meetings and an ARMA Workshop and Dinner.
This week, I had one (1) day of vacation (so
naturally, I came in and worked 9 hours on Saturday), an ARMA Brown Bag
(you bring your lunch and listen to a speaker for 1½ hours), lunch with
a vendor, the weekly ORT meeting, the weekly Status Meeting and an ARMA
Publicity Committee meeting.
This is why I don’t have time to do any work.
Actually, the weekly ORT (“IDHS” Organization Review Team)
meeting saved me from a follow up meeting about the ARMA Publicity
Committee, of which I am a member.
“Alma”, my supervisor, is the Chairman of the
Publicity Committee for the 1990 Annual ARMA Convention, which will take
place here in San Francisco in November.
As soon as we ARMA members put our business cards into the hat
(to “volunteer” to serve on one of the committees), “Alma” gathered up
all the Company people to be on her committee.
So we’re all Publicity Committee members, including “Melanie”,
who is not an ARMA member, but who can’t stand to be left out of
anything.
Anyway, “Alma” called for a meeting for 2:00
Wednesday afternoon to discuss the newsletter that she wants to send to
all ARMA chapters to publicize the San Francisco convention.
In typical “Alma” fashion, she started work Wednesday afternoon
on a newsletter that’s supposed to go out Monday morning.
In typical “Melanie” fashion, “Melanie” changed everything “Alma”
had done so far.
Naturally, I volunteered to help, while pointing
out that I would be in “Martinez” almost all day Thursday.
I got back into the City just in time Thursday afternoon for
“Alma” to leave for a meeting she and “Rowena” and “Ashley” had to
attend in “Pleasanton”. The
newsletter meeting that morning must have really been something, because
“Murray” and “Melanie” were rolling on the floor with laughter all
afternoon long.
It seems that when “Alma” went to the last
convention in “Lafayette”, someone had given her a small map of the city
with restaurants marked near the convention center.
She was so taken with this that she kept trying to insert the
idea into the newsletter.
Like someone from Tulsa (or Tokyo, for that matter) would look at the
newsletter and say: “Well, I
wasn’t going to go to this convention; but now that I see that there’s a
Chevy’s Mexican place nearby, I guess I
will go after all.”
The others kept pointing out that there would be
maps in the conventioneers’ packages and she would agree with them.
And the next thing you know, she’d be trying to stick that map
back into the newsletter.
I can’t wait to see what it looks like when it’s
“finished”.
In other news…
You will have gathered that I learned how to do
Graphics last week.
WordPerfect allows you to insert pictures and things into your
document.
I also learned about fonts.
Now I can write in superscript as well as in
subscript.
strike-out.
Pretty neat, huh?
There are others that the printer can’t handle yet.
When I came into work last Saturday, it was with the intention of
figuring out how to do “soft fonts” and “initializing” the printer; but
I wound up spending most of the time cleaning up my work files of which
I seem to have just under 100.
I’ll probably have to wait a couple of weeks before
I can spare the time to play around and get this stuff in operation; but
when I do,
Love, as always,
Pete
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