CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Armstrongs, Richard, Ross, Nina
Armstrongs, Richard
Armstrongs, Wednesday

0605 -
0605 -    ..
0606 - Summary/Objective
0607 -
060701 - Follow up
060702 -
060703 - Had a nice visit, lunch and discussion on a wide range of topics.
060705 -  ..
060706 - Richard and his wife, Wednesday, were passing through Sacramento from
060707 - having visited some property they own in the Sierra foothills, some-
060708 - thing like Auburn or Placerville.  They stopped by Lucille's for about
060709 - 3 hours and we went to lunch.  Richard looks terrific, even better
060710 - than one would expect from a Marine.  He seems to enjoy the hardy life
060711 - of long night marches at sporadic times.
060713 -  ..
060714 - Wednesday is a delight, energetic and easy to be with.
060716 -  ..
060717 - Richard related some of his experiences in the Gulf War, and being in
060718 - the Philipines during the recent closing of US military bases.  He has
060719 - has had a number of interesting assignments.  Sounds like his MOS
060720 - gives him a bit more responsibility and autonomy than most military
060721 - situations.
060723 -     ..
060724 -    Home of Record
060725 -
060726 -    Richard and Wednesday are planning on improving their property in
060727 -    the mountains as a location for their motor home to become their
060728 -    home of record.  He has about 2 years until this project has to be
060729 -    completed.
060731 -     ..
060732 -    Develop Requirements Matrix
060733 -
060734 -    He needs to prepare a statement of requirements for power, water
060735 -    and sewer, and gas if it is available.  Apparently some grading is
060736 -    also requried for access, drainage and a building pad.
060737 -
060738 -        He feels electrical power could be extended to his property
060739 -        with minimal expense.  Apparently it will require installation
060740 -        of 1 or two power poles and a transformer.
060742 -     ..
060743 -    I suggested he begin now to investigate what is needed, by meeting
060744 -    informally with the local building department, examining other
060745 -    properties in his area that have similar improvements, and discus-
060746 -    sing with local home owners, engineers and contractors about the
060747 -    scope of requirements, and any special difficulties in implementa-
060748 -    tion at his property site.
060749 -
060751 -  ..
060752 - We discussed a wide range of topics, both personal and political.  It
060753 - was a great pleasure to hear Richard express his views.  He has become
060754 - quite a savvy young man, with a keen eye and ear for nuance in life.
060756 -  ..
060757 - He is going fishing in the Delta with Ross tomorrow on Ross' boat;
060758 - they plan to return to San Clemente on Sunday.  They are staying, at
060759 - Wednesday's daughter's place in Bolinas on the coast, in the North
060760 - Bay.
060761 -
060762 -
0608 -

SUBJECTS
SDS Marketing, Perceived Value
Convert Schedule to Diary, 910523
Subject Index, 910906

0805 -
080601 -  ..
080602 - Scheduling and Reporting Key Functions of Management
080603 -
080604 - We discussed SDS and POIMS a bit.
080605 -
080606 - Richard said his work emphasises the integration of "scheduling" and
080607 - "reporting."
080609 -  ..
080610 - We reviewed briefly how "discovery" of knowledge and ideas occurs from
080611 - the "process" of writing on a computer.  Richard seemed to agree that
080612 - writing on a computer is significantly better than manual methods
080613 - because of the ability to quickly create alternate compositions which
080614 - can be compared to select the better formulation and/or combined to
080615 - derive new knowledge and new ideas.
080616 -
080617 -        [On 960502 Richard tried Lotus Notes, ref SDS 1 6883
080619 -     ..
080620 -    He made it clear though that he does not like to work on computers.
080622 -     ..
080623 -    He explained situations he enounters occassionally where a superior
080624 -    in the field is hesitant in carrying out Richard's instructions
080625 -    intended to avoid damage from a hazardous condition.  Evidently
080626 -    Richard uses a log to capture information of this kind.  We
080627 -    discussed today how the SDS "Diary" provides an automated "log"
080628 -    linked to prior related events and documents.  Richard seemed to
080629 -    feel that this would be helpful.  He liked the idea of automating
080630 -    and integrating "scheduling" and "reporting," because these
080631 -    functions are seen as critical in the Marines.
080632 -
080633 -       I explained how some of the ideas in SDS were derived from my
080634 -       military experience.
080636 -        ..
080637 -       Richard indicated the "Suspense File" system I learned in 1967
080638 -       is still used in the military.
080639 -
080640 -
080642 -  ..
080643 - Subject Indexing
080644 -
080645 - Richard explained an alpha code system his organization uses (may be a
080646 - DOD uniform procedure), to identify documents by content.  They
080647 - evidently put the code on the document.
080648 -
080649 -    He explained the typical problem encountered of deciding upon a
080650 -    particular code when a variety of codes could be applied.  We
080651 -    considered the advantage of assigning multiple codes, since often
080652 -    a document have import across a spectrum of subjects.
080654 -     ..
080655 -    I did not discuss the SDS method of only coding the document with a
080656 -    generic ID that is linked to an automated Doc Log that accepts
080657 -    multiple subjects for a document, as well as standard ID fields
080658 -    like author and addressee.
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