March 27, 2008
Dear Everyone:
I spent nine hours last Sunday in my borrowed
cubicle in the basement (“Lower Level”) of Building T entering yet
another group of items into the official GIL 3
Glossary.
During the course of which I watched
The Mummy,
The Mummy Returns and the
first disc of Season Four of
On Monday, I found out there are three more sets of
terms that still need to be entered.
Remember the
Hydra from
Greco-Roman mythology?
Hercules was sent out to kill a large serpent.
No problem, he whacked its head off with his sword.
But then two heads grew back instantly.
Hercules whacked the first head and, before he could deal with
the second, the first was replaced by two more.
Eventually our hero figured out a way to kill the
monster. But I’m beginning
to feel like every time I get one little glossary tucked into bed, as it
were, two more pop up in its place.
And I can only work on it for up to four hours per day; then I
have to switch over to my other project.
Hence the need to work on the weekends.
The other project is working with boxes of records
from the “Winks” Group. This
project actually falls into two sub-projects.
Sub-Project Number One is the “Sovereignty” group who, during a
Clean Up Day, filled 20 boxes with files they “no longer needed”.
After my review, the number of boxes was down to 12
that were eligible for destruction and one of files whose retention had
not yet expired. So I put
together a nice list of the contents of the 12 boxes and added the
proper form to be signed by the “owner” of the records.
We sent this to the person who acts as the liaison of the
“Sovereignty” group.
I was not the least bit surprised when she asked
for a copy of the spreadsheet that I had created to list the box
contents. Remember:
These people already said they don’t need the files any more.
But, true to form, she’s sending the list out to everyone to
confirm, yet again, that they really,
really,
really don’t want these files anymore.
Really!
It will be interesting to see how long it takes for
them to get back to us on this.
In the meantime, Sub-Project Number Two is some 16
boxes of folders from the “Really Expensive” files, also no longer
needed. I’m currently on box
number 14 (there’s a light at the end of the tunnel!)
What’s interesting about these files is how many of them have
nothing to do with “Really Expensive”, as in, “lard” owned, bought, or
sold by the company.
Most of these files concern agreements, some of
which have something to do with property, buildings, leases and such.
But many of them are about having a lawyer review and comment on
proposed agreements of all sorts.
Then I remembered:
Before it was “Boring and Really Expensive Services” (BRES), it
was Company “Really Expensive” Management Company (CREMCO).
And before it was CREMCO, it was Company “Lard & Divining”
Company and the “Lard” part of “Exploitation, Lard & Privateering”
(EL&P). And “Lard” was where
the lawyers tended to appear.
I dealt with lots of them in the mid-1980s when I was running the
“Lard” Files. (It’s all on
the wheel; what goes around comes around.)
I’ve even seen a few names I recognized.
So I’m fairly certain I can get this project completed by some
time next week. Then, if the
“Winks”
In the meantime, the
Spring weather continues to be
refreshing.
Love, as always
Pete
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