October 31, 1996
Dear Everyone:
Another Halloween
means another November election right around the corner.
I don’t really care
about the
Presidential election.
Clinton’s on the
left, Dole’s on the
right and we’re stuck in the middle.
Oh yeah, and
Ross is out on Planet 11%.
(Have you ever noticed that Dole looks like the
Grinch Who Stole Christmas; Clinton looks like the
Pillsbury
Dough Boy on a
Bad Hair Day; and Perot still looks like the funny little
gnome he looked like
four years ago?)
No, it’s the local
stuff that I’m getting tired of.
If I have to hear one more “Paid for by Taxpayers Against
Frivolous Lawsuits” on the radio, I may just blow a gasket.
Ditto for “Paid for
by the Coalition of Taxpayers Opposed to Oversized Lawyers’ Fees.”
That one sounds a little ambiguous.
Are the taxpayers only opposed to lawyers who have a weight
problem? And of course, in
this case “taxpayers” is spelled
i-n-s-u-r-a-n-c-e--c-o-m-p-a-n-i-e-s.
They’re the only ones who blame everything on the lawyers.
If it was the lawyers trying to pass or defeat some stone silly
proposition, it would be “taxpayers against greedy insurance companies.”
Thank God there’s only a few days left.
In other news...
You may recall that
I “volunteered” to be Vice-president of Public Affairs at the local
chapter of ARMA (Association of
Records Managers and Administrators) earlier this year.
At the first full meeting of the Board of Directors, one of the
first things we decided on was that the full Board would only meet once
a quarter instead of every month.
We had our second meeting this week, which is unfortunate since
it gets in the way of preparing for
Halloween.
However, apart from that, and some time spent playing with my
Access database
(which gets filed under “Research and Development”), ARMA hasn’t taken
up too much of my time. If I
could only figure out a way to work in Access and carve a pumpkin
simultaneously, I’d be OK this week.
Last month, I took
the Christmas List with me to
Oregon so people could
pick who they wanted to get this year.
Apparently, I didn’t make myself clear, or nobody was really that
interested. Anyway, no one
picked any names, so this weekend, “Jeannie” and I did the honors.
The list is attached for those people who need it.
We’re finally
getting some rain around here.
Also wind and power outages.
It’s beginning to look like autumn has arrived.
No movies this week,
as I spent Saturday getting a flu vaccination and Sunday
resetting all the clocks at my place and “Jeannie’s”.
However, “Jeannie” has provided a modicum of amusement in the
attached “Hot Line”.
Enjoy.
Love, as always,
Pete
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