October 29, 1998
Dear Everyone:
Yikes!
It’s Halloween
already! Time flies when you
don’t keep a gun to its head.
I was at the mall last weekend, and they were already putting up
the Christmas
decorations.
Speaking of which, I’d carefully taken the
Christmas List with me when I drove up to “Jeannie’s” place last Sunday
(to change all of her clocks, of course).
I even managed to get everyone assigned for this year.
Then I left the list at “Jeannie’s” place and haven’t been able
to get hold of her since. By
now, it’s hopelessly lost, although still very much physically there.
I’ll have to redo the List this weekend.
So this year’s List will have to go out next week.
“Jeannie” is planning on coming down to my place
for Halloween,
since it’s my first one in the new place.
(I like the fact that it lands on a Saturday; no rushing home
from the office.) She’ll
bring her own decorations, of course.
Last weekend, we noticed that someone had installed a hook above
the front porch. This would
be the perfect place to hang an inflatable
skeleton.
And “Jeannie” is the only person I know who has her own
inflatable skeleton.
Although I am given to understand that “Marshall” has in inflatable
Christmas tree.
Can’t imagine how you hang ornaments on it.
Or are the ornaments inflatable, too?
At work, the list of people planning on attending
my little
Records Management Software soiree has risen to 51.
Since the name tags come in a box of 50, I’m debating whether to
order another box, or count on someone bailing out at the last minute.
I’ll probably do both.
We’re looking into
video-taping the
whole proceedings. This
would enable us to go back and look at the demos again when questions
arise (“which one had that great doohicky that did the whachamacallit
again?”). It would also mean
that we might be able to send copies of the tapes to people who couldn’t
afford to come, thus getting more User buy-in.
However, the cost of taping for two days was going
to run about $1500 and we’re in a cost-cutting mode right now.
(Face it: We’re in a
cost-cutting mode into the next century.)
But then, it turned out that the video-taping people work for the
same department that we do.
So we might get the equipment loaned to us instead of renting it.
That would bring the cost down to about $350 per day.
Much more reasonable.
We’ll see how it goes.
Once I get past this big project, I can relax for a
few days. Then it will be
Thanksgiving. Another
three weeks after that, it will be time off for Christmas.
At this rate, the year will be over before we know it.
And I haven’t even scheduled the rest of my available vacations
days. I kept taking vacation
days, but my boss kept making me put them back and bill the days as
Personal Leave
instead. Which, of course,
was very kind of him.
As for movies, even with the extra hour last
weekend, “Jeannie” and I couldn’t find the time to get to a theater.
However, I did buy two new pairs of shoes.
So it wasn’t a total loss.
More exciting news next week.
This week’s chuckle comes from Mother who got it from some
Internet Marketer. They’re
getting smart, using humor to get their electronic foot in the door, so
to speak.
Love, as always,
Pete
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