October 30, 2002
Dear Everyone:
“Jeannie” is demanding a retraction from last week’s Letter, claiming that we were “at no time more than three blocks” from the Half Moon Bay Library, and therefore not lost.
So, for the record, we were not, in the literal sense, LOST. We were merely misplaced. And only temporarily, at that.
As for last weekend, it was the dreaded Sunday-When-the-Clocks-Go-Back. Since I would need to be at “Jeannie’s” place on Sunday, to reset her clocks to Standard time, we decided that we would do our respective work on Saturday and plan to go shopping on Sunday.
Later on Saturday afternoon, “Jeannie” called to say she had forgotten about a “block party” barbecue planned for her neighborhood on Sunday. So we agreed to go our separate ways and I figured I would spend Sunday afternoon cleaning house and getting some long-overlooked chores done.
But by Sunday morning, “Jeannie” had decided that she could fit shopping and barbecue into the same day, so we went shopping after all. Which is to say, I spent several hundred dollars on new shoes and cosmetics, all of it needed, and “Jeannie” got the freebies that came from the cosmetic counter. In other words, a good time was had by all. And my house is still a mess.
But my Jack-O’-Lantern is carved and ready for tomorrow night when the full half-dozen expected Trick-or-Treaters show up. And now I just have to find the time to get ready for next Tuesday’s election.
It’s not a pretty picture here in
Unless he trips over the Upstart. And as for said Upstart, he can’t even sling mud without most of it landing on his own self. Do we really want a person with such bad aim running the state? Who to choose, who to choose?
As for the other candidates and issues, I have a growing stack of propaganda from the mailbox and an annoying number of recordings on my phone machine. I’m thinking of voting in inverse proportion to the number of mailings and recordings. In other words, whoever bothers me the least gets my vote.
And, of course, there’s the old standby: Vote Yes on Odd, No on Even.
In other news…
ARMA:
Association of Records Managers and Administrators.
I’m the Treasurer of the
Mt Diablo (local) Chapter.
Last month, at our so-far-one-and-only meeting of the Board of
Directors, we found out that our president is moving on to a new job in
The more Bad News is that he was going to do the program for the November monthly dinner meeting. So now we have to scramble to get a program together. And I started thinking about some programs that we’ve had in the (distant) past that were less about Records Management and more about the “professional” aspects of the organization. I remembered one in particular that dealt with the four Personality Styles.
Bottom Line: I’m going to be presenting a program on the four Personality Styles in three short weeks. So you can expect to see more about them as I obsess about my presentation over the next weeks.
Won’t that be fun?
Love, as always,
Pete
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