October 15, 1991
Dear Everyone:
After a grand total of seven consecutive working
days in my office, I'm winging off again, this time to
Santa
Barbara with a predicted high of 73° will make a welcome change from
that oversized steam bath they call "Hobby", as well as the current heat
wave here in Northern California.
I'll be working at the Pt Arguello Plant in
Gaviota,
a ”town” so small that it can't be seen from the highway.
I suspect that, like
Montara,
most of the “town” is up in the hills. This
place is so small that it doesn't appear to have a post office.
Mail is sent to
Goleta, a
few miles away. What Gaviota does
have is a whopping big gas plant built by Company and its partners to
process the oil coming from the Pt Arguello oilfield offshore.
It's built up on a hill overlooking the
Santa
Barbara Channel. They’d have
one heck of a view if the place had any windows.
For three days, Wednesday-Friday, I'll be helping
someone named “Rayna” to do a complete make-over of the file system.
There's nothing I like better
than organizing someone else's office. Starting
tonight, I'll be staying at the Holiday Inn in beautiful downtown
Buellton,
a metropolis some 15 miles northwest of Gaviota.
Buellton is at least large enough
to boast a Burger King as well as the aforementioned Holiday Inn.
Friday night, I'll fly back to San Francisco (FYI,
it's a lot easier to get flights to and from Santa Barbara from SFO that
it is from Oakland--enough to make driving across the Bay worth the
bother) then, on Saturday, it's off to
Half Moon Bay for the
Pumpkin
Festival and, hopefully, to meet up with “Marshall” and “Glinda”.
After all that excitement, it will be necessary for
me to take a day of vacation to recover.
Then, with luck, I won't be making any more trips until it's
time to fly up to Canby for Christmas.
Speaking of organizing other people, I was
supposed to spend last
Saturday helping “Jeannie” get her office set up.
But by the time I got there
Saturday morning, she had already
installed new dead-bolt locks on her front and garage doors all by
herself. Speaking as one who has
installed new locks, I'm impressed.
Furthermore, her office no longer had piles of
stuff in the middle of the room (although I have no idea where they
could have gone to) so, we decided to go antique shopping instead.
“Jeannie” settled on a very nice
oak drop-leave desk/bookcase to replace a small bookcase which was
(literally) falling over after the last move.
Then we rented some movies and made a stop at
Baskin & Robbins before sitting in air-conditioned comfort for the rest
of the afternoon.
I'll be so glad when this heat wave breaks up.
There's something wrong when your
cooling bill is higher in October then your heating bill was for the
same month last year.
Love, as always,
Pete
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