To: Grupo Brad who wrote (7701 ) 8/11/1998 6:47:00 AM From: Mr. Cellophane Man Respond to of 19331
Brad, I do you have time to respond to yours before heading out. Regarding your comment: "Hope you're meeting with Joe in New York today rather than Connecticut." , although I'd very much like to meet and talk with Joe, quite frankly I'll talk with anybody who happens to be at DCI headquarters. I was in Vermont for a wedding over the weekend and decided Sunday since it seemed a lot of questions have been surfacing lately, it would probably be worthwhile to take an extra day to try to talk to people since I'm (sorta) "in the area". Consequently, I called DCI several times yesterday in an attempt to talk to a person to no avail. As I'm sure know, their "automated phone directory system" doesn't work and when you ask for an operator, you get a voice mail from a receptionist. When you call the 800 number, you still get the recorded message about the year-end results. I did, however, have Joe's extension so left two messages for him including leaving a number about 4:30PM where he could reach me last night in the event he checked his voice mail. I also left a message for the "phantom receptionist". Maybe it was the fact I've never been able to talk to anything other than voice mail at DCI that raised my curiosity to the point I think the trek is worth making even without any assurance I'll be able to talk to anybody. So, figure I'll be spending 6-7 hours on the road today before catching a plane back home at 4:30 this afternoon. So, even if I can't talk with anybody, at least I can say I tried. Sorry you think it would "take me a week with Joe for me to catch up on things" but I guess some of us are just a lot slower than others. Such is life :-(. Dan Note: You know I've always appreciated your e-mail and everything else you've done for people interested in DCI and I think I've made that abundantly clear to you on may occasions. I've also welcomed your presense on the thread and usually made a point to try to keep you there whenever you popped in after not being around for awhile. My only objection -- EVER -- was to what someone in the past once called the "good 'ol boy" network where some people are privy to information that others aren't (like knowing where Joe is all the time :-)).