November 4, 1994
Dear Everyone:
Not much time for a Letter this week, but “Alice” is absolutely right:
I
did mess up on the Christmas
List. I don't know
how “Frankie” managed to get
in there twice and “Alice” not at all.
“Frankie” must have bribed someone.
I swear I double and triple-checked that list.
I even tried to get “Jeannie” to
help me with it, but you know how that goes.
And another thing: Whose idea was
it to give so many kids in this family the same first initial?
We've got two ‘A’s, one ‘E’, one
’W’ and all the rest are
‘M’s. No wonder I can't tell one
from the other. Poor planning on
somebody's part, that's all I can say.
Anyway, enclosed is the New and Improved 1994 Christmas List (assuming I
remembered to put it in the envelope--things are kind of hectic around
here). The upshot is:
“Richard” gets
“Alice” not “Frankie”.
“Jeannie” took possession of her new car last Saturday evening, after
which we went to a movie. When I
came by her place Sunday morning to reset all of her clocks to Standard
Time, she wailed: "There's
dust on my new car!" (get used to it, kid.)
The movie was
Stargate.
I thought it was better than the
critics said it was. “Jeannie”
thought it was, "much better
than just’ better than the critics said it was’."
It was nice to see
James Spader
playing a good guy for a change. And
Kurt Russell
gets better and younger looking every day.
This is because, according to my
Encyclopedia of Film, he was
born the day after I was.
“Miranda” chased me out of the office at 6:45 last night, just in time
to catch the 6:52 BART.
We'll be burning the midnight oil
from now until the week after next. Parts
of the infamous User Guide are looking good.
Other parts consist of two lines:
"Under construction."
"Thank you for your patience."
(It works for the highway people.)
In other news…
We're having a newspaper strike. Both
the
San
Francisco Chronicle and the
Examiner
are on strike until further notice. This
is most annoying. I realize that
I have no time to read the paper, but it should be
my choice not theirs.
Of course there are other papers
in the area: The Contra
Costa Times, the
Tri-Valley Herald, and, of
course "The Trib" (Oakland Tribune).
But let's face it:
If it's not the
Chronicle, it's just news.
Love, as always,
Pete
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