April 11, 1996
Dear Everyone:
The big news at work
is the announcement this week of the IMS (Information Management
Services) reorganization (pending approval by Human Resources).
Instead of Records Analysts and Assistants, and Forms Analysts
and Assistants and Library, etc., we will simply have Information
Analysts and Assistants.
They will be writing all new job descriptions for everybody, including
the supervisors. And, oh
yeah, everyone is going to be moving to “Livermore”.
The RACS and FAST
people will move from
San Francisco
and the Library people will move from Company Park in San Ramon and the
“Livermore” people will stay pretty much where they are except that the
entire office area will have to be redesigned to accommodate all the
extra people. In one way or
another, everything is going to change from offices to phone numbers to
new business cards. And, of
course, it will all take place in the middle of all the
other projects we’ll all be
working on. No specific
dates yet, of course, but I am
looking forward to a time when I won’t have to drag 20 pounds of work
into the City and back every week.
Naturally, there are
people who are thrilled, like the ones who presently work in San
Francisco, but live closer to “Livermore”.
And, just as naturally, there are those who would rather die than
leave the City for the Outback.
All of which will make for interesting people-watching this year.
I find myself in the
unique position of facing the prospect of giving up not one, but two
offices. My San Francisco
office will disappear when RACS moves to “Livermore”.
And my “Livermore” office will undoubtedly go to one of the new
supervisors in the new organization.
That’s OK, but I may have to hold a garage sale for all the
stuff that I’ve accumulated
over the years that just won’t fit into a cubicle.
In other news...
For my birthday,
“Jeannie” bought me half a computer game called
Myst (I paid for the
other half). This is a
“D&D”, which stands for
Dungeons and
Dragons, as that was one of the first of these role-playing games to
be invented. We had planned
to get together for a game last Sunday (Easter).
However, this game requires a
sound card in the
computer, something that enables the computer to make sounds generated
by the game’s program.
Things like, “Look out!
There’s a dragon behind you!”
Without the sound, the game lacks something.
Unfortunately, the
sound card that I had ordered didn’t arrive in time.
In fact, it still hasn’t arrived and might not show up until next
week. So we went to a movie
instead.
Primal
Fear.
The title has nothing to do with anything in the movie.
I guess the studio thought it would look good on the marquee.
An archbishop is brutally murdered and a teenager is quickly
arrested for the crime. Now,
you may be asking yourself, why did they have to make it an archbishop?
Because, if the kid had been accused of killing the church
janitor, it wouldn’t be a high profile case and
Richard Gere’s
character wouldn’t step in to defend him.
Gere plays a flamboyant, media-hungry lawyer who loves to see
himself on CNN.
This is part
courtroom drama, part whodunit and part character study as Gere
progresses from worrying about what’s best for the lawyer to worrying
about what’s best for his client.
For Gere’s character, this is quite a trip.
Soon someone learns
that the archbishop had a few secrets and
red herrings
start coming out of woodwork.
They take a cheap television trick and do something interesting
with it. Beyond that, I
won’t say anything except that this is one of the better movies I’ve
seen in a long time. And if
you do go to see it, just
remember, “Jeannie” wasn’t fooled for a minute.
Love, as always,
Pete
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