[CH] Go Bucks
Alex Silbajoris (72163.1353@compuserve.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:09:32 -0500
You would have enjoyed the restaurant I saw tonight - the sports-theme
place they made out of the olf Jai Alai.
The occasion was a cocktail party held by the contracting house that put me
in at qwest. I got to meet some of the administrators, and generally
network with some of the other contractors. But the restaurant was
amazing, a veritable cathedral to OSU sports. To find my party, I walked
through a gift shop to the Walk of Fame, then to the second billiards room
on the left. The place was lined with display cases full of sports
memorabilia - forgotten trophies, team photos, the occasional gigantic pair
of basketball shoes. It was absolutely full of people, smoky and loud and
busy.
The city is abuzz with talk about the basketball team. They are one of the
four remaining teams, and the final championships are this weekend, in
Tampa. The city police gave the team buses a police escort to the airport.
This is their best season in more than 30 years.
As for that big mystery file in Eudora, it was some kind of word-processing
document (with a .doc extension). It has gone poof by now, though, with no
sign of what it may have been. The Edis Bevan files still come in, so you
are still subscribed, but they are automatically trashed, and they never
aoppear in the inbox. I'll tell Milda about the Wolf messages. She does
not yet know how to get into the Eudora.
The weather here is improving. It is often still cloudy and 40, but once
in a while it's sunny and 55. I'll be happy when I can put the houseplants
back outside - many of my peppers are blooming, and two of them have pods
ripening now.
Yes, Kosovo is in the news here, too. It's interesting to see how almost
everyone is waving the flag like they did for the persian gulf - but not
everyone. George Voinovich, who is now a US senator, spoke out publicly
against the policy. Unusual to see republicans breaking ranks like that.
The job activity is picking up now; I'm actually putting together the
"deliverable" - that is, the actual files I will submit to qwest. So far
so good, though there is a pesky virus everyone in the company is giving to
everyone else. It's nice to set my own hours, though, and trade working
late in the afternoon for working at dawn.
- A