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Here is the memo from Dolph, who is Dave's boss who is the other Dave's boss who is my boss.
Tomorrow afternoon from 1:30 - 3:00pm, I would like us to have an Ice Cream Social. I am buying!
This will be to celebrate our 'Change Member-id Project' and as an introductory get together for all the new contracting staff that have recently joined our team. The Amisys Advance project is just getting started and will require that we are all working together as effectively as possible. My goal is for us to come together and begin the process of working together as a team.
As such I am going to propose the following activity as a 'get to know you' activity.
The ice cream will be served in the kitchen area near the computer room.
I see various maps of the U.S. and Michigan posted on cubes. We will take these maps or equivalent maps and add to them some other maps of any other places which represent where each of us grew up. Each of us should take a half sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper, fold that half into another half, just like a card. Write your first name on the outside and on the inside put something about you and that specific place. Either bring your favorite picture of the place, print something from the internet, or just write something about you and that place.
Tomorrow, while eating ice cream our job will be to post that card to the location on the maps where we grew up.
I will put up maps on the wall across from the copy/fax room near the programmer's cubes. My guess is that I need to go out and get a map of Russia, India, and China. Is there any other place that I am missing and that we need a map for? Please help me out and let me know. Maybe some of you new folks can even volunteer to bring your own map.
The exercise is voluntary, in case anyone is worried about a nefarious government agency knowing where you came from.
And if anyone can't eat ice cream, please let me know an alternative snack that I can get as a replacement.
Thanks for participating. I am looking forward to meeting all the new people!
Dolph
Here is my life story...
Born in Pawtuckett, Rhode Island 1968 (Providence hospital)
Moved to Palas Verdes, California 1970 (Southern California it beautiful)
Moved to Paxton, Massachusetts 1972
Where the seasons are distinct and the school year ends 10 days earlier than it
does in Virginia for some strange reason.
Moved to Reston, Virginia 1974
A planned community. Named after Robert E Simon. Rest in Reston my father used to say. The town motto is live and work in Reston. For 8 years I worked for my father in his company in Reston. My mom did his taxes and the three of us all drove three cars three miles or less to work. This was 1982 to 1990 when I finally moved out of the house.
My brother was born there 1975 in Arlington Hospital.
I went to a solar elementary school. Teraset a school in a hill. Arabs paid for
the construction to learn the technology of air conditioning in the desert.
1986 went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
1990 moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Met my wife in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania at
a Jewish Shabbat dinner. A joint program between University of Pittsburg and
Carnegie Mellon University. She was from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the capital
and known as the central Pennsylvania area. Pittsburg is known as the Western Pennsylvania area. I also called it the gateway to the west.
In 1992 we got married and my wife graduated from UM with a Master of Social Work. Also known as an MSW. She got a BASW from University of Pittsburg. We moved from a two bedroom 800 square foot apartment in the Woods of Aerhart Ann Arbor to a $69,000 800 square foot condominium on Bolgus Circle in Ann Arbor with a 250 square foot basement with a shared entrance to the condominium above us and their 250 square foot basement. In 1993 after acquiring a dog and two cats we moved to our current location in Pittsfield Township.
This condominium is how we got our first cat. The neighbors left a stray cat they were rescuing in our common hallway. We cared for it over the weekend.
Luckily our house now has 2000 square feet and a half a basement 450 squarefeet. We also have three kids aged 9, 6 and 3. And we have two dogs and three cats all 12 years old.
Tomorrow afternoon from 1:30 - 3:00pm, I would like us to have an Ice Cream Social. I am buying!
This will be to celebrate our 'Change Member-id Project' and as an introductory get together for all the new contracting staff that have recently joined our team. The Amisys Advance project is just getting started and will require that we are all working together as effectively as possible. My goal is for us to come together and begin the process of working together as a team.
As such I am going to propose the following activity as a 'get to know you' activity.
The ice cream will be served in the kitchen area near the computer room.
I see various maps of the U.S. and Michigan posted on cubes. We will take these maps or equivalent maps and add to them some other maps of any other places which represent where each of us grew up. Each of us should take a half sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper, fold that half into another half, just like a card. Write your first name on the outside and on the inside put something about you and that specific place. Either bring your favorite picture of the place, print something from the internet, or just write something about you and that place.
Tomorrow, while eating ice cream our job will be to post that card to the location on the maps where we grew up.
I will put up maps on the wall across from the copy/fax room near the programmer's cubes. My guess is that I need to go out and get a map of Russia, India, and China. Is there any other place that I am missing and that we need a map for? Please help me out and let me know. Maybe some of you new folks can even volunteer to bring your own map.
The exercise is voluntary, in case anyone is worried about a nefarious government agency knowing where you came from.
And if anyone can't eat ice cream, please let me know an alternative snack that I can get as a replacement.
Thanks for participating. I am looking forward to meeting all the new people!
Dolph
Here is my life story...
Born in Pawtuckett, Rhode Island 1968 (Providence hospital)
Moved to Palas Verdes, California 1970 (Southern California it beautiful)
Moved to Paxton, Massachusetts 1972
Where the seasons are distinct and the school year ends 10 days earlier than it
does in Virginia for some strange reason.
Moved to Reston, Virginia 1974
A planned community. Named after Robert E Simon. Rest in Reston my father used to say. The town motto is live and work in Reston. For 8 years I worked for my father in his company in Reston. My mom did his taxes and the three of us all drove three cars three miles or less to work. This was 1982 to 1990 when I finally moved out of the house.
My brother was born there 1975 in Arlington Hospital.
I went to a solar elementary school. Teraset a school in a hill. Arabs paid for
the construction to learn the technology of air conditioning in the desert.
1986 went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
1990 moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Met my wife in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania at
a Jewish Shabbat dinner. A joint program between University of Pittsburg and
Carnegie Mellon University. She was from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the capital
and known as the central Pennsylvania area. Pittsburg is known as the Western Pennsylvania area. I also called it the gateway to the west.
In 1992 we got married and my wife graduated from UM with a Master of Social Work. Also known as an MSW. She got a BASW from University of Pittsburg. We moved from a two bedroom 800 square foot apartment in the Woods of Aerhart Ann Arbor to a $69,000 800 square foot condominium on Bolgus Circle in Ann Arbor with a 250 square foot basement with a shared entrance to the condominium above us and their 250 square foot basement. In 1993 after acquiring a dog and two cats we moved to our current location in Pittsfield Township.
This condominium is how we got our first cat. The neighbors left a stray cat they were rescuing in our common hallway. We cared for it over the weekend.
Luckily our house now has 2000 square feet and a half a basement 450 squarefeet. We also have three kids aged 9, 6 and 3. And we have two dogs and three cats all 12 years old.
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