February 3, 2000
Dear Everyone:
Things to be celebrated:
It’s official:
I’m finally able to eat hamburgers again.
The hole in my mouth where The Tooth used to reside has healed
enough for me to bite into things, as long as they’re not too hard.
This greatly increases my options at lunch time.
McDonald's,
here I come.
We have completed running the Destruction Review
Reports for now at work.
There might be one more tiny little group coming back to us from the
vendor; but it won’t be much. Over
316,000 boxes have been identified as eligible for destruction.
Not that they will all be destroyed, of course; “Tiddly” and
“Winks” will see to that, along with Owners who will look for any excuse
to hang onto their boxes.
Nevertheless, it looks like I won’t need to work so
many extra hours this month.
In fact, I’m taking Friday as a “Comp Day”.
My sincere hope is that I’ll sleep through the entire morning.
Of course, I’ll miss the line up on the
A&E network;
but, hey, it repeats, starting again at 1:00 p.m.
Finishing the Destruction Reports doesn’t mean the
work is done, naturally. The
manager is already asking for statistics that required 24 separate
queries in 12-14 separate databases to compile.
And he wants a daily count of how many Owners responded and how
many boxes they released, etc.
Managers are good at seeing “The Big Picture”, but they have no
idea how labor-intensive and time-consuming coming up with those figures
can be.
And I really, really do need to get going on the
Conversion from the old
Versatile
system to the new
extemporé
system. But first, that Comp
Day.
Also deserving of celebration:
Mother and her friend “Amy Rutland” are off to sunny Spain and
perky Portugal this month.
They’ll be gone for over three weeks.
I have already received my assignment to be sure and tape the “Homicide:
Life on the Streets” made-for-TV movie, which will be
broadcast some time this month.
Leave it to Mother to leave the country during a
sweeps month.
In other news…
I really did tape the
Super Bowl
last weekend, along with the Pre-Game show.
I had to split my viewing into two evenings; but I got through
eight hours of programming in under two hours, simply by fast-searching
through everything but the commercial breaks.
“Herding
cats” wins, of course; although I did like the beer commercial
featuring a couple of lizards complaining that a ferret on their team
had allowed herself to be photographed in the nude, complete with
Playboy-like poses.
One reason for not watching the actual broadcast of
the game was that “Jeannie” and I went to see
Galaxy Quest
on Sunday. “Jeannie” hadn’t
seen it yet. It was the
second time for me, and it was just as cute and adorable as the first
time. Definitely worth a
trip to the theater.
Love, as always,
Pete
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