June 21, 1996
Dear Everyone:
This has been a
long, exhausting, informative, eventful week.
I spent three days at Company’s Information Technology
Conference. Company has
enough people involved in information technology (read, “computers”)
that Company Information Technology Company (CITC) could actually put
together three days of a conference, complete with keynote speaker and
67 separate sessions, and an Expo, and have people come from all over the world to attend,
most paying $300 for the privilege.
I did not attend all
67 sessions, although sometimes it feels like I did.
Talk about information overload.
Some were short and sweet.
Some were boring as hell.
And some presenters just kept going on and on, obviously
forgetting the great axiom, “Remember, the brain can only absorb as much
as the butt can stand.”
Right in the middle
of all this, I had to leave to take BART
into the City to attend the monthly ARMA
dinner meeting. Ordinarily,
an IT Conference would have taken precedence over an ordinary ARMA
meeting. After all, they
have one almost every month.
But I had to go to this one as I was being “installed” as a board
member. As of Wednesday
night, I am officially the vice-president of Public Relations for the
Golden Gate chapter of ARMA
International.
I know what you’re
thinking. “With everything
else going on, taking on yet another job, has she lost her mind?”
Quite possibly. But
don’t worry; I’m sure it will turn up somewhere.
I probably dropped it on the dining table with all the mail.
Actually, the “minimum requirements” for being VP are pretty
minimal. The job only
becomes as big as you make it.
And the real reason
for my “volunteering” for it is to get my hands on the membership list
so I can develop an
Access database. This will
enable us to generate lists for the members sorted by various criteria;
something a lot of members have been asking for.
Plus, it will allow me to become more of an expert on the Access
software, which I need to do.
And I have the advantage of being able to call on some experts in
CITC (two of whom gave presentations at the IT Conference this week) for
help.
So being a VP really
only means a few weekends and evenings on the computer, plus attending
board meetings and dinner meetings--two evenings per month.
And it should make a nice little “additional achievement” on my
Performance Management review at the end of the year.
In other news...
“Marshall” came up
from Fresno last weekend, so we all went out for lunch and a movie.
The Rock,
starring Sean
Connery,
Nicholas Cage and
Ed Harris. Great actors,
formula plot. Bad guy Harris
has taken over
Alcatraz Island and is going to annihilate San Francisco unless
(fill in the blank). Cage
and Connery have to stop him.
There’s a completely unnecessary chase scene through
San Francisco
because how can you make an action film in San Francisco and not have a
chase scene? Why else did
they put all those hills there?
Trouble is, the scene is so badly edited that you can’t see
what’s going on.
Connery and Cage
bounce some good lines off each other, but that’s about all I can say
for it. “Bargain” matinee
prices being what they are, wait for the video.
Love, as always,
Pete
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