It’s a lovely Friday evening. Today in Germany, a young man took a
handgun and a shotgun into a school from which he had been recently
suspended. He shot and killed 14 teachers, 2 students, and a policeman
before taking his own life. Dressed completely in black, he sought out
the people he wanted to target and calmly shot them to death. Germany
now joins the ranks of countries now needing to re-examine their
cavelier attitude towards school safety. This morning a lady living
somewhere near the Colorado College campus was found beaten and killed
on the campus. Not a good news day.

However, tonight we’re going to the SkySox baseball game. The SkySox are
a minor league club, part of the the Colorado Rockies Farm Club system.
They’ll be playing a club in the Arizona Diamondbacks system from
Tuscon, Arizona. LSI Logic (my cost center, actually) is paying for the
tickets for the LSI Logic employees who are encouraged to bring family
or friends with them. They are responsible for all other costs except
for their own tickets. It’s kind of a employee morale activity. We’ll
have about 30 people there for the festivities. It’s partly cloudy with
occasional thundershowers, so hopefully we’ll be able to stay dry! It
should be a lot of fun.

Eighteen employees are attending out of about 40 possible. So, I’m
missing quite a few people. I think I’ll look at taking everyone to the
movie after Star Wars debuts. Not sure how we’ll work that out, but I
think it’d be a good thing. In a time when we’re not giving pay raises,
promotions, or bonuses, and are laying off people, increasing workloads,
and restricting training, I need to be doing something for folks to have
a good time. In Japan we always had one social event each month to help
relieve stress and to help folks get to know each other so that they
would work together better. That much work-social activity wouldn’t work
here, but we can do something at least once a quarter.

So, that’s the news for today!

This entry was copied from an older journaling system into this program on 29 November 2002.