December 18, 1997
Dear Everyone:
Christmas is coming. I
knew that. I had made plans
based on the fact that Christmas was coming.
But what with everything going on at work and at home, somehow I
had forgotten that “Christmas is coming...” means you need to go out
shopping. I suddenly
realized last Saturday that I had not even
begun to shop!!!
And, since we’re leaving for
Oregon this coming Sunday, there would be no weekend during which I
could do any shopping. Panic
city. I needed to find gifts
for various people. I got
Dad’s name this year. What
do you get for the man who has everything, including a pin in his hip?
And there are other things you need to do in
preparation for Christmas.
Like wrapping. And shipping.
And getting snow chains for the car (to ensure that there will be
no snow in the mountains).
And buying canned goods for the food barrel at the grocery store.
Bottom line:
I’m having a very busy week.
So, naturally, there’s a computer crisis going on
at work, just when I can’t possibly stay late because I have so many
things to do. However,
looking on the bright side, I’ve already mailed out all of my
Christmas cards.
I’m still not sure how I managed to get that done.
Maybe it has something to do with getting home an hour earlier
than I used to.
This (getting home an hour earlier) will change
next year. Beginning in
January, I’m going to start a work schedule that is commonly referred to
as “9/80”. That means that
you work 80 hours over nine days and get the tenth day off.
So I’ll be working longer hours (nine hours per day), but I’ll
get every other Monday off.
What this means to all of you out there in “Dear Everyone” Land is that
the weekly letter will probably be going out on Tuesdays instead of
Thursdays. We’ll try it and
see how it goes.
No movie reviews, of course; but I have hopes of
seeing one or two while we’re up in Oregon.
I also have hopes of reading the entire
Access
97 Developer’s Handbook.
I don’t know how many pages it has, but I do know that it’s about three
inches thick and it weighs a ton.
Or maybe I’ll just read a nice sci-fi / fantasy or two.
Or three.
Those of you who may have noticed that last week’s
Letter had no graphics, that was an “OOPS” on my part.
I now send the Letter out electronically to at least two people
who get it via email. The
electronic version can’t have the graphics because different email
systems handle non-text differently and it can cause problems.
So, I usually draft the Letter, print it, polish it up a little
(i.e., spell-check) and add a graphic.
Then I save it to the hard drive.
Then I open email, delete the graphic, copy the Letter into the
email and send it off.
Last week, I got a little mixed up and did the
“save it to the hard drive” after
I deleted the graphic for email.
Whatever.
The enclosed Christmas Poem comes from the
Records
Management
Listserve,
proving that even records managers take a little time off for Christmas
now and then. Everyone have
a Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy
New Year.
Love, as always,
Pete
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