October 20, 1995
Dear Everyone:
Just when I finally
figure out where it’s at...somebody moves it.
Especially in San Francisco.
It’s seems like
every time I go into San Francisco, which is usually twice a week,
something has changed. I get
to my building and the front door’s not there anymore!
They moved it!
Well, technically,
it was just a “temporary” entrance “for the convenience of the
employees” (so kind of them) and they didn’t move it, they “abandoned”
it, which doesn’t sound much better.
All part of the
“World Headquarters Relocation Project”.
The World Headquarters used to be at 225 Beelzebub Street, but
they sold it. Not the
street, the building. And,
by the way, the “World Headquarters” only applies to Company, not to the
world in general. Having
sold the building, they have to move the World Headquarters, so they’re
moving it to my building at 575 Mirabel, which is about a block and a
half away. I’ll bet you
didn’t realize you could move a World Headquarters a block and a half
and spend millions of dollars doing it.
They’re completely
renovating the entrance and front lobby at 575 Mirabel, future home of
the New and Improved World Headquarters.
They’ve been completely renovating it for so long now, I’ve
forgotten what the old, unimproved lobby looked like.
Not that there was anything wrong with it; but you know how it
is, any excuse to redecorate.
The front door’s not
the only thing that’s moved.
My office moved last week.
When I left one night, I was in room 3055, also known as “the junk room”
because that’s where all the junk that nobody wants in their office, but
nobody wants to get rid of, ends up.
The big, clumsy books that come with the software.
The software disks that you have to keep in case you ever need to
re-install said software.
Extra chairs, the copier, the printer, the fax, an old typewriter in
case you ever have to type labels or an envelope.
You know, junk.
They (RACS) moved me
into the Junk Room for about a month until the
Versatile
Server and its companions could be moved to “Livermore”.
That, you will remember, happened the weekend before last.
And, as soon as the server room was vacated by computers, they
moved my furniture in. So,
when I came back into work last week, I was in a different room.
(I now share it with the RACS
Server, the only one that didn’t go to “Livermore”.)
Trouble is, I
haven’t been in the new room long enough to get my automatic pilot
re-programmed. To get to the
copy machine, I used to come out of my office, turn right, turn left,
turn left, go straight and there’s the copier.
Now, it’s straight, left, straight, left.
But you know how it is; you’re reading the thing you’re going to
copy and not really paying attention.
So the auto-pilot takes over and you go right, left, left,
straight and what the hell am I doing in the Mail Room, again?
If I don’t get that
auto-pilot re-programmed soon, I may have to do a cold boot to the hard
drive. Which could be
painful.
In other news...
Election year approaching, proceed with caution.
I see where that
funny, little gnome,
Ross Perot is raising his strange head again.
When I got to the BART station
last night, there were “volunteers” trying to get signatures to get a
“third party” on the ballot.
Apparently, they’re unaware of the
Independents and
Libertarians. At best,
the new party would be a “fifth party”.
(That anything like a fifth wheel?)
Perot wants to call
it the “Independent Reform Party” (IRP).
Not sure I’d want to belong to a political party known as
“irp”.(“Are you a Republican or a Democrat?”
“Neither, I’m an IRP.”)
People might get the wrong idea.
If IRP doesn’t work, he’s going for the “Reform Independent
Party”.
R.I.P.
Need I say more?
Love, as always,
Pete
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