September 8, 1995
Dear Everyone:
Might as well get
the bad news out of the way first:
The will be no Letter next week.
Why?
Because I’m going to be out of town.
Where?
“Cincinnati”, Ohio, on the banks of Lake Erie.
Now, you may be
asking yourself, “Why is she going to “Cincinnati”?
Could it be to see the world-famous, and recently opened, Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame?”
Hardly.
Musically, I grew up in the Big Band era of the ‘30’s and ‘40’s,
thanks to the jukebox
that was one of Mother’s crazy ideas that turned out to be yet another
stroke of true genius. It
played 78-rpm records, sat at the end of the downstairs hall, and
provided many hours of enjoyment, not to mention functioning as a group
alarm clock. Since Mother
had the only real alarm clock in the house, she would get up first, turn
on the coffee-maker on her way through the kitchen, go downstairs, where
all of us kids had our rooms, push a few buttons on the jukebox at
random, go back upstairs and begin making breakfast, serene in the
knowledge that nobody sleeps
through Perry Como
singing
Jukebox Baby
full blast at 6:00 am.
Nobody.
There is a chance
that I might actually see the aforementioned Hall of Fame, if only from
the outside. But, I’m going
to “Cincinnati” to attend the Annual Spectrum Users Conference.
Spectrum is another one of the software systems I support.
And “The Brady Company”, which develops and markets Spectrum,
holds a Conference every September.
Actually, it’s kind of a nice deal since Company gets to send
three to four people “free” each year.
We don’t have to pay the Registration Fee because we’re such a
“big” customer.
It’s at the Stouffer
Hotel, in beautiful downtown “Cincinnati”, which is much like beautiful
downtown San Francisco. The
streets are perfectly safe.
It’s the people you have to watch out for.
Actually, this particular hotel is great because it’s right next
to a shopping mall. You just
go through the lobby, take the double doors on the right, turn at the
Disney Store and you’re there.
Perfect for that last minute “Oh, my God!
I have to bring home a present for the little one.”
The “little one” in
this case is thirty-mphmph, but so what?
I expect presents when she
goes on trips. Last year, I
lucked out, finding a Muffy Vanderbear Christmas Angel Tree Ornament,
thus scoring bear-points, Muffy-points, and Christmas Angel-points.
This year should be even easier, since I’m sure there’s at least
one shop that carries Vanderbear-Wear, not forgetting Hoppy Vanderhare.
After all, it’s getting a little late in the year for the Spring
Outfit and garden tea ensemble they’re in now.
The attachment is
compliments of “Jeannie”, who got it from someone at work.
Oh, by the way,
there’s a good chance that there will be no Letter the week after next
either, since I’ll be in the Records Management Conference that RACS is
putting on. Spectrum goes
from Wednesday to Saturday and Records Management begins the following
Monday and ends on Wednesday.
After two conferences back-to-back, I may not be coherent enough
to write my own name. We’ll
just have to wait and see.
Love, as always,
Pete
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