Thanks Mike !!
I really enjoyed what you suggested about women CEO's. Your concern about the future reminds me of Doc Burke. ( I mean, it had 'enduring value'. I will 'get around to' publishing your prophecy on fishnet stockings.)
This morning I will send my Boss a status report, explaining why i have not filed any since October! October thru Jan. 9 were very intense months, challenging my ability to stay on track and multi-task in a manner that satisfies this female Boss. I have more than one female Boss, too.
Fun things about work:
- getting acquainted with XML. (and probably relinquishing it, too, to a younger programmer)
- Training users on Query Development (SQL+GUI=QBE).
- Figuring out how to get "Use Cases" injected into our modus operandi and our lingua franca.
- Figuring out how to get "agile" development methodology injected into our brick&mortar (inertial) institution
- learning how to implement GTD in my life. (I bought task manager software, and keep it on a silver flash drive-- on my neck, when I pedal home. Need I say more?).
For Toastmasters, I did finally write up & deliver "A Refugee's Tale" about my mother's 18th year, 1945. More, later.
Daughter Johanna continues to challenge Ted and Otila. She has her own apartment, and works 40+ hours at a video store. Her two roommates are a gay couple, and one of them speaks German well ! He's is mysterious, fascinating, and probably self-destructive.
Otila and I will travel to Auckland and Apia in April. All month.
Happy New Year,
Ted
From: mgburke1@optonline.net [mailto:mgburke1@optonline.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:50 PM
To: Zuschlag, Ted
Subject: Fwd: more on the enclosed
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:50 PM
To: Zuschlag, Ted
Subject: Fwd: more on the enclosed
How's you new year going, Ted ? Do anything special on your birthday ? Below I should have written: "Good on ya, Ted" ("ya" instead of "you") as that's how I would have said it.
About that date of mine, it was fun though a little on the intense side. The lady likes expensive restaurants and makes it clear just what she wants from a man (total devotion and a real serious commitment, plus taking her to a lot of Yankee games, which can be even more expensive than 5 star restaurants).
About my thinking she's Polynesian, she's from Tokyo but doesn't look Japanese. She's a beauty and has a unique look that is more Polynesian than Japanese. She doesn't know if she's part Polynesian but I bet she is on her mother's side, as she talked about her mom and grandmom having big curves (as does she). She also has the strong will and clarity of purpose I've seen in Samoan women, combined with Japanese sophistication, art and fashion sense, etc. Anyway it reminded me of how in Apia I saw a beauty at a bar and asked who is that and you said her parents were a Japanese/Samoan couple. There may have been a couple of such women in Apia, do you remember ?
More soon,
- Mike
2 comments:
I don't have a "concern" about a future in which most CEOs and political leaders are women. On the contrary, I think it will be an improvement. Men are warriors, women are communicators: who would you rather have running the world ?
Ted you didn't answer my question about a Japanese/Samoan beauty or two at a bar in Apia. Any recollection there ? Otilla has a good memory, perhaps you could ask her about the existence of such women in Apia in the early 80's. I'm interested as Yuri is Japanese but according to me has a lot of Polynesian blood.
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