November 15, 1991
Dear Everyone:
Well, here it is, 5:30 Friday night and I haven't
even started my weekly letter. Busy
around here.
“Ashley” and I are now serving on the Project Team
to test the IDI Records Management Software package when-and-if it ever
arrives. From now until the
middle of January, we plan to spend at least one day a week in Company
Park with the rest of the Team brainstorming, planning and, ultimately,
testing the software.
The reason for the testing is that this is a
“completely” new software. Not
completely new, of course, since it's based on the same software as
“IDHS”. But it's a new
application. And you must test
because you don't want to be in production, with real data and have it
suddenly disappear on you and have the programmers say:
“Gee, I wonder why it did that?“
Lack of testing is one reason
that Voyager I went
off on its merry way like it did. Of
course, it'll be back in 500 years, starring in
Star Trek:
The Motion Picture.
Unfortunately, being out of the office 20% of the
time makes it a little difficult to get my other work done.
But, looking on the bright side:
I get to sleep late and eat breakfast at least once a week.
We have a new person to replace “Rowena Chandler”.
Her name is “Miranda Garcia” and
she's from Bolivia. Left the
country in a hurry, under a political clout and landed in New York about
five years ago not knowing one word of English.
She's a smart cookie.
I have only to show her how to do
something once and she's got it.
Now if I can just get the time to show her the
once.
You'll notice that there haven't been any movie
reviews lately. That's because I
haven't been to the movies for a couple of months.
“Jeannie” did go to see Goldie
Hawn's
Deceived a few weeks
ago and pronounced it hopelessly predictable.
Save your popcorn allowance for
something better.
I went shopping at Costco last weekend.
I went in to get two things.
I came out with only four.
Pretty good.
I saved $1.20 on a video tape and
"celebrated“ by spending $80 on a new telephone answering machine that
will do everything but call in sick for you.
I still need to do some work in Owner History
before I go home, so ‘bye for now.
Love, as always,
Pete
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