March 13, 1997
Dear Everyone:
After a month of “no office, no desk, no phone, no
PC”, followed by a month-and-a-half of computer problems and
gremlins of every
size, color and description (the green-and-purple ones are the worst), I
think we’re finally ready to come down out of crisis mode.
The flood of technical difficulties has slowed to a trickle.
And my cold is much better.
All’s well with the world and I might even actually
get to the movies next weekend.
With all the problems we’ve been having lately, the
head of Technical Support hired an extra person to help out.
His name is “Murray”.
Since we already have a “Murray”, and since the technician looks to be
about 18, and is no taller than I am, we call him either “Little
‘Murray’” or “Rent-a-Tech”.
He’s been very helpful and I’m sure we’ll be able to start washing the
footprints off the ceiling soon.
This is good because we’re starting to gear up for
the Second Biannual Records Management Conference here at Company.
The last one was in September of 1995, right after I got back
from the Spectrum Users Conference.
This new conference will be held in May and I’m Team Leader for
“Technical and Exposition”.
“Wilbur” is the rest of the team.
We get to take care of computer arrangements and run the
Exposition.
Right now, it just means I need to design a database for "Elaine"
and "Priscilla" to keep track of the registration.
But in a couple of months I’ll be running my own
Expo.
In other news...
Last weekend, “Alice” being here temporarily,
“Marshall” drove up from
Fresno and
we had a kind of brunch in “Jeannie’s” living room.
Then the others drove into
San Francisco
for sightseeing and shopping before dropping “Alice” at her hotel.
I elected to stay home since I was still battling cold bugs.
So I didn’t find out about the
horrendous traffic jam on the
Bay Bridge until the next day.
Some days it pays to just stay home.
I spent a good part of Sunday going through the
Records Management List Serve messages that collected in my email In Box
all week. These are notes
sent back and forth by records managers on a variety of subjects.
Occasionally, someone slips a funny in.
The attached is intended for the amusement of those people who
are reasonably familiar with computers and under
no circumstances should it be taken seriously.
(Kids! Don’t try this
at home.)
Who says Records Managers have no sense of humor?
(Don’t answer that.)
Love, as always,
Pete
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