June 5, 2003
Dear Everyone:
Well, it started to look like the Document Management business was slowing down, but it came roaring back this week. The “Hobby” training coordinator and I (I’m the California Training Coordinator) decided that we need to completely revamp the hands-on labs (the scripts that trainees follow). They had originally been written for a particular project, which was fine at the time, but now it’s causing some confusion and the Training database is getting cluttered with leftovers from various training sessions.
Last week it looked like we had all the time in the world to do this. But suddenly the Cost Reduction Focus Teams, who have been trained, are beginning to sprout sub-teams, who will need to be trained. And the OE Project, which had been hung up on a sandbar somewhere, is about to begin rolling out again. (“OE” means “Operational Excellence”, which means just about anything you want it to, when you think about it.)
Then there’s those Legacy boxes that the “Winks” department would really like to have reassigned to anyone who would be willing to adopt them. It’s steady work, but a tad bit boring. And another part of the “Winks” department had asked about some help with transferring some data from one system to another. The ball’s been in their court for so long, I think they’ve lost it.
Busy, busy, busy.
Oddly enough, I’m so busy that I’m actually working in my own office, at my own desk these days. Tomorrow will mark three whole days in a row working at the same place. What luxury! It feels strange not to be packing up the computer, and the files and everything else that I usually haul around with me, to take home because I’ll need it in a different place tomorrow. I looked at my calendar and, since I moved to our “Pleasant Hill” base back in January, three days in a row has only happened twice so far.
Have Hard Drive, Will Travel. That’s me. Although luckily, I haven’t had to travel outside the Bay Area in a while. (Fingers crossed.)
In other news…
I tried one last shot at getting “Jeannie’s” laptop computer to talk to a new printer. I thought we might substitute my old printer for the new one. See, when you connect a computer to an older printer, Windows is set up to install the print drivers for you. You just tell the computer that you have a printer, the make and model, and Windows installs the print drivers (the sub-routine that allows the computer and printer to communicate) from its reservoir of printer data. However, the make and models in “Jeannie’s” computer skipped right over the printer’s series.
It’s a 712, and the computer jumped from the 600’s to the 800’s with no thought for the 700’s. So we still don’t have that figured out. About the last thing to try is the CD that originally came with the old printer, in hopes that the computer won’t balk at running an older version of Setup.
Meanwhile, at the movies…
“Jeannie” wanted to see
The Italian
Job so she could lean over and say, “I’ve been there!” when
scenes of
It’s about a group of people. They’re young, they’re immensely attractive. They’re thieves. They desperately want to get even. They need tiny little European cars (painted red, white and blue) to pull off their masterful plan. Something goes wrong. (Something always goes wrong. If everything went right, it would be boring.) Change in plans.
For a summer matinee, it’s just about perfect, if you can overlook a few holes in the logic. Watch for another Michael Caine movie playing in the background in one of the scenes.
Love, as always,
Pete
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