September 24, 1993
Dear Everyone:
Well, here it is nearly the end of September, and you know what that
means:
·
Replace the box of baking
soda in the refrigerator**
·
Get new toothbrushes
·
Buy new mascara
·
Flip all your mattresses
And make up a 1993 Who-Gets-Whom Christmas List.
Only
this time, I'm going to make
sure my name gets onto the
list.
Actually, this year, I'm using my expanded knowledge of software to set
up a matrix in Lotus
123 that I can continue to use each year.
In theory, we can go for six
years before anyone gets anyone else again.
But I still haven't figured out
how “Sally” makes those nifty shadow boxes in Lotus.
Things have been chugging along busily around here.
My Destruction Approval Quality
Improvement Team is in Step 8 of the 9-Step Process.
One more meeting with our
Guidance Review Team, and some additional documentation, and we should
be about finished.
The RMSEP (Records Management Software Evaluation Project) Team, having
looked at nine products, plus the offer of CITC to design a software to
order for a mere half-million dollars, took less than three hours to
narrow the candidates down to two. These
two, although head and shoulders above all the others, are neck and neck
with each other. Further study is
required, but I believe we will finish well ahead of our December 31
deadline.
At the office, we're getting a LAN. That's
a Local Area Network, a collection of PCs that can talk to each other
and share the same software. Plus
we are replacing some older PCs with new ones, upgrading the memory on
others and moving everyone into Windows®.
Since I know zip about Windows®, ditto LANs, this presents whole
new worlds to conquer. We have an
"official" PC coordinator to support us, but she has lots of other
clients besides us; so I'll be learning as much as possible, as quickly
as possible, in order to back her up in RACS.
In the meantime, Ogden and Mordecai have a new companion:
"Edward".
Edward is an Epson FX-286e and
now you know almost as much about him as I do.
He's a dot-matrix printer, which
I don't know how to use yet; but that's OK because, right now, I don't
have any paper to put into him. When
I do get some paper, and
figure out how to use it, it means I'll be able to print small jobs when
I'm working in the evenings or on weekends.
Edward came from surplus, which
means his previous owner either got a new printer or lost their job
through restructuring. Getting
things like Mordecai and Edward are one of the advantages of backing up
the official PC coordinator, since she's the one who gets the surplus
equipment.
In other news…
It's taken a lot, but we've finally convinced “Jeannie” that she should
come to Seattle with me. It means
a relatively cheap trip for her, since Company will pick up most of the
costs, and a whole lot more fun for me. The
Conference begins on Sunday, but I
didn't get into any of the sessions that I signed up for that day, which
means we can go out and play. I
think that makes up for missing
Basic Systems Analysis Tools for Computer
Users and
Cost-Justifying an Electronic Imaging System.
Love, as always,
Pete
**These are all things you should do every 3 months--or every quarter,
if you look at it that way.
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