October 2, 2015
Dear Everyone:
“Alice” has been visiting all this week.
She had a business trip to
San Diego last week and managed to tag
on a “side trip” to the
Bay Area.
We’ve had lots of fun going shopping, having lunch and making
condescending remarks about “Jeannie’s” organizational skills.
“Alice” will be leaving for
New York early tomorrow morning.
Quite by coincidence, I will be jetting off to the
East Coast myself,
although I won’t be leaving until mid-afternoon.
On the downside, this means I’ll probably reach my hotel around
midnight. But that’s OK
because it will only be 9:00 according to my internal clock and I’ll be
able to sleep as late as I like on Sunday.
Why and where am I going?
ARMA*, of course. This year
the annual International Conference will be taking place in
Washington,
D.C. The actual Conference
begins bright and early Monday morning, but I’ll have all day Sunday to
scope out the territory, check in at Registration, and look over the
schedule to see which sessions I’ll want to attend.
One of the things I like best about the “new-and-improved” educational
sessions is that we don’t have to “pre-register”.
It’s all on a first-come basis.
And I don’t have to “prove” that I attended any sessions.
No Trip Report to write up and submit to a Supervisor who doesn’t
have time to read it and doesn’t really care what, if anything, I
brought back with me. Nor do
I have to “prove” to the Institute of Certified Records Managers that I
learned anything. It’s all
assumed. The number of
Certificate Maintenance Points is predetermined.
So I could, theoretically, sit in my hotel room and watch
CNN all day.
But that would be a waste.
I have lots of people to see and say hello to; and some of the
sessions actually do provide useful information.
I certainly got a lot out of last year’s Conference in San Diego,
not including the exercise of running all over the Conference Center.
In other news…
One thing “Alice”, “Jeannie” and I did was go to see
The Intern, along with “Jeannie’s” neighbor.
This is the latest offering from
Nancy Meyers (writer, producer,
director) who gave us such gems as
The Holiday and
It’s
Complicated. In other
words, gentle fluff, like popcorn without too much salt or butter.
Robert De Niro plays Ben, who has done it all:
Wife and family, successful career,
American Dream.
But now he’s retired, widowed and bored.
Anne Hathaway plays Jules, on the brink of everything and
terrified of falling the wrong way.
The company that Jules has founded, and which is growing faster
than Jack’s Beanstalk, decides to do a community outreach program by
offering internships to seniors.
And that’s how Ben and Jules meet.
There are a few complications thrown in to try and keep things
interesting. Ben dispenses
elderly wisdom, while his co-workers help him understand this brave new
world of digitized everything.
Jules learns a few growing-up things.
One of the younger guys learns how to tuck in his shirt.
It’s all in a day’s work.
Happy Ending. A
pleasant way to spend a couple of hours in the dark with
air-conditioning. And
popcorn.
Pete
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