OK, ladies.
And I'm just talking to the girls this time.
When the room mother in your child's elementary school class calls you on behalf of the teacher, it is not proper etiquette to treat her like she's a telemarketer trying to sell you something.
I totally get how your undergarments are creeping toward an uncomfortable place (to steal a phrase from a brilliant writer) because you got elbowed out of the way when it came to earning the coveted distinction of room mother.
To quote Junie B: "too bad for you."
You need to suck it up and be courteous.
And that concludes our little dispatch from the emergency broadcast system.
Let's move on to official business.
It's a matter of days until I go to Prague (!) to meet the NetBeans techno celebs live and in person. Just between you and me, people... I expect we're going to have a significant development on the NetBeans front. Soon. But don't go telling everybody you heard it here, OK? Last thing I need is to get busted for spilling the beans.
;-)
On another note...
Music Meets the Computer
Odysseys in Technology
It's a talk sponsored by Sun at the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, California.
It's rare that I miss living in the Bay Area, you guys. I don't spend much time looking over my shoulder ... but I tell you... events like this... make me wish I still lived there.
December 14. Free. All kinds of techno celebs talking about how computers have revolutionized music-making.
And as I'm a fan of both music and computers, I'm really bummed that I'm not going to get to go to that one.
Wait a minute.
I couldn't go anyway.
I'm going to be in Prague (!) to meet the NetBeans techno celebs live and in person on December 14.
Over it. No longer bummed.
Listen, if one of you guys end up going... post a little snippet of how it was as a comment. I'll give you free stuff. A picture would be nice too. Extra free stuff for a picture. (We got a mini-shipment of Free Stuff from Jami yesterday. HUGE thanks to that lovely woman.)
I get by with a little help from my friends.
mary