We are scheduling next year's Chuck-aPalooza. Since he is very spoiled, Chuckie likes to treat himself by going to Europe for a whole month right before his electrical engineering extravaganza. So, based on his vacation schedule and trade show tour of duty, it looks like Chuck-a-Palooza will be the last weekend in October. Hopefully I won't be too frazzled to enjoy my favorite holiday.
In other Chuckie news, if you're wondering why I haven't been posting any of his antics, it's because he's writing another presentation/paper, which means, as soon as he gives that to me, I'll have stories to tell. I could tell you about the last phone conversation we had, when he was up in Canada:
"Hi, Uncle Chuck! How's things?"
"It's so cold up here and I'm exhausted! Did you get my e-mail?"
"Nope."
"Are you sure? I sent it yesterday."
"Yes, I'm sure, I'm in front of my computer and my e-mail is up and running."
(Repeat the "did you get my e-mail" portion of our conversation several times.)
"I always have problems e-mailing attachments from this place."
"Why? You're just in Canada."
The rest of the conversation was him telling me to log onto the network as him, of course that didn't work since he has '98 and I have 2000, then he tells me that he's trying to e-mail me a copy of an acceptance letter he got from some magazine, approving one of his papers for publication. And could I go and tell the VP of Marketing? And then he had the identical conversation with Linda the Admin. Asst.
I do like Uncle Chuckie, but, like most people's uncles, he can get a little loopy sometimes. It's almost too quiet when he's not in the office. The upside to that (besides getting more work done for other engineers) is that I can always hide in his very messy office. The chief benefit being, since he has one of those new-fangled doors, I can get a bit of peace and quiet. Very handy when I need to do something like call a doctor's office and I don't want to broadcast the conversation. Or just hide from everyone for five minutes. I call it Uncle Chuckie's Fortress of Solitude. He even has a window!
