October 31, 1991
Dear Everyone:
These are Changing Times.
Specifically, this is the time of
year that you have to change all of your clocks back to Standard Time
(and get back the hour of your life that was stolen last April).
This is also the time of year that you discover
just how many things in your life have a clock built into them.
If you check, I'll bet you find a
clock in almost every room in the house.
Having changed all the clocks in my own place, I
went over to “Jeannie's” last Sunday to perform the same service for
her. “Jeannie” doesn't get along
well with clocks. It's not an
attitude or anything like that. “Jeannie”
likes clocks. She must,
considering how many of them she has. It's
just that, for some reason, clocks don't like
her.
She makes them nervous, or
something.
It's sort of like people that cats or dogs don't
like. If you are not a cat
person, you're just not a cat person and cats won't come up to you to
get their ears scratched. Well,
“Jeannie” is just not a clock person.
Nevertheless, when I came over last Sunday, I
(finally) brought along a housewarming gift: a clock.
Actually, a clock radio.
With all the power outages that
she's been having, I thought a clock radio with a battery backup would
be a good idea. This one allows
two separate wake-up alarms and is particularly easy to program.
Especially if your older sister
does it for you.
There's also a clock in “Jeannie's” thermostat.
We finally got a copy of the
instructions on how to set it up. These
instructions, in my opinion, appeared to have been written originally in
German and then translated into English by a Japanese.
Or maybe it was the other way
around. To make matters worse,
the original was a little pamphlet-sized booklet, so the manager copied
several pages together. So you
had pages 1, 2, 3, 4 on the first sheet, then 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.
However, we finally realized that
some of the original pages were missing.
Nevertheless, once I figured out what “Set Back”
meant, we were able to “program” the heat to come on 15 minutes before
the first alarm on the clock radio, keep the place at 72° all day, and
"set back“ to 67° after “Jeannie” goes to bed.
This will remain in effect until
the first time the power goes out.
We also, naturally, went shopping together.
The only other “big” news is:
“Alma” will no longer be our
supervisor. This is very
confidential and hush-hush and we’re not supposed to discuss it outside
the office, so remember: You
didn't hear it from me.
“Ken Crow” made the announcement last Friday at a
special meeting that he had called to give us the preliminary report on
the Records Management Study Team's recommendation.
The recommendation hasn't
actually been made yet; that's why it's still a “secret”.
As to the group's reaction to the news:
No, we didn't dance on top of the
conference table, singing “Ding
Dong the Witch is Dead!”.
At least, not until after “Alma” left the room.
Love, as always,
Pete
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