Sept 20, 2001

>1.  Work on your public speaking and interaction skills by getting
>connected with a Toastmasters in
>your area.  Even if your job does not require interface with the
>public, you still have to interface
>among your peers and, if you are having trouble with assertiveness,
>you may gain self-confidence over time by networking within  that
>organization.
>
>For more information about Toastmasters, go here:
>
>http://www.toastmasters.org/
>
>2.  Let me first preface this by saying it is expensive, but so is
>NOT having good skills in this
>area.  I found this to be one of the best courses I ever took.  For
>me, personally, it was life changing.


Indigo, I agree totally with you about Toastmasters.  I belonged
about a quarter of a century ago and the group helped me a lot.  But
unless things have changed, I don't recall it was expensive.  Can you
give us some sort of pricing figures?


>  > As far as newspaper preservation is concerned...
>
>  > 3. wrap them in plastic to keep the dust and dirt off.
>
>>>  David Roepke
   > Ashland University Archives

David, careful what type of plastic you use.  If you were to use
sheet PVC (vinyl), for example, it would be pure poison for the
papers.  For a quickie primer on paper preservation, dial up
http://www.jimlyons.com./Preservation.html


>Lastly, for those of you who wrote me, a Poofda is a reference to an
>old Monty Python skit called
>the Bruces.  They are a meeting of Austrailian men who read their
>rules and they reference NO
>POOFDA'S every third line.  My brother and I listened to that skit
>over and over (well that one
>and the Spam Song).  But yes, Indigo, it could just be files going
>to alphabet heaven!
>
>Aaron

Aaron: "So pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth".  (And never was that
more apparent than last week.)  :-(

-Jim
--
-Jim Lyons

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