April 15, 1994
Dear Everyone:
First, and foremost, congratulations to “Alice” and “Kelly” on the new
addition to their family, and welcome to little “Park” who made her
debut last Saturday at 3:00 am, 7 lbs 3 oz, 19”.
Those who are familiar with our
favorite park in
Ashland will have no trouble identifying where the name came from.
As for me, I'm still trying to figure out just what it
is that “Mahitabel” does all day. So
far, I've spent a total of three days with her and I remain in a kind of
fog. “Mahitabel's” approach to
training can best be described as mercurial (i.e., "jumps all over the
place").
She keeps telling me that this or that is something I won't be doing.
This pertains mostly to the more
physical aspects of the care and feeding of PCs.
In this, she's right; the idea is
that if the PC needs more than the most cursory first aid, I call in a
specialist and go back to my more analytical duties.
Of course, I get even with her. When
she asks to learn my job, I assure her that working with RACS Customers
is something I never have time for, being too busy doing system stuff.
More recently, we tried a new tack, going through one specific software,
of which I will be the (surprise!) administrator.
Only this time, I drove and
“Mahitabel” navigated. Which is
to say, I handled the keyboard, with “Mahitabel” giving instructions
rather than showing me what to do. “Mahitabel”
readily agreed to this approach, repeatedly slapping her own hand away
from the keys.
It wasn't her fault that we kept being interrupted with questions either
for her or for me. I could easily
spend an entire day answering Paradox questions alone.
That's because I know more about
Paradox than anyone else in the three groups (Forms, RACS and
“Livermore”). What I
don't know is
LAN
administration.
And in just two more weeks, I'm going to be running at three (3!!!) of them. Katie bar the
door.
I'm going to be busy in the next few months.
Like a true Pisces, symbolized by
two fishes, one swimming upstream, one swimming downstream, I won't know
if I'm coming or going. I already
have one of those personal recorders to capture ideas before I can
forget them again. Next, I might
have to get a beeper. More new
technology to learn.
But, hey! If I can program a
VCR, I guess I can handle
anything, right? So what if I
drop a few people out of the system. I
can always put them back in again, can't I?
Once I learned how to, right?
Tally ho!
Love, as always,
Pete
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