Helped Doug Brown with his organization chart idea. It will be interesting to see if it works.

I went for a job interview yesterday. Nicole watched the kids for me. Of course, I was dressed up. When I was giving Nicole instructions as I was leaving, she told me I looked pretty and so grown-up.

Our next door neighbor, Desire, gave Kathy four tickets to the Braves game. Kathy called me, and we decided she could bring me some clothes and pick me up after work with the kids for the drive downtown.

Since I can see anyone drive up from my office window, I told her to drive up front, wave to me, and I would come out.

When Kathy drove up in front of Harland she looked in my office window, but saw my office was empty. She drove a few more feet and looked down the steps to the front doors and saw a man crouched down by the doors with a ski mask on and a gun! It was after hours, so Kathy had no idea what to do, except get the kids away fast. Was I being held hostage inside? Did I even know that man was there?

She drove around the corner to a dry cleaners, rushed in, told them what was happening, and borrowed the phone to call the police and me. Her heart was pounding. When she got me on the phone, I told her everything was ok and that none of it was real. Some people in marketing were making a security film!

The timing was uncanny. I heard a bunch of noise in the lobby as the filming was being staged, so I left my office to go see what was going on. When I saw the actor with the ski mask and gun posing outside the main doors, I said that could end up scaring my wife who was about to drive up, so I would go outside and wait for her.

I went to my office to get my things, and that was just when I saw Kathy’s car pulling away from my window. I ran as fast as I could to the front door to see Kathy speeding away!

[Update: Kathy got a free address stamp from the guy who was managing the film as an apology for the panic. Free tickets and free stamp. Not bad.]

Arlene Bates ok’d Kathy working on a project for Human Resources. The project is estimated to take 20 hours and pay $8 an hour.

That’s equal to about 6 weeks at Sports Life.

Position: Director of Sales Technologies

Salary: 50K/annual

Description: Responsible for reviewing, implementing, and supporting the collection and distribution of information that directly supports the FSG sales effort and management of that effort. From these efforts support and develop related products and services for sharing/selling to FSG customers. Special attention to be paid toward exploiting internal resources (M.I.S., Scantron, future acquisitions, etc.)

Areas of Responsibility:

Sales Measurement and Reporting

• National Accounts

– Smaller number of accounts

– Very detailed information

– In-depth call report

• Primary Accounts Tracking

– Large number of accounts

– Summary information

– Abbreviated call tracking

• Performance Tracking (or variation)

• Performance Training Graphical Assessment Analysis

Sales Resources

• Sales presentation technologies

• Account management

– Call and follow-up technologies

– Contract processing

– Price sheet program

• Presentation library

– Templates

– Competitor information

Connectivity

• Network support

– Local area

G.O. sales management

FSG and Holding Co. departments

– Wide area

sales administrators/secretaries

field reps and managers

• Mainframe resources

• Harland Macintosh Users Group

Information Services

• McFadden/Thomson database

• Compuserve

I was terribly congested in my head and lungs on Sunday. Felt pretty bad, dozing off through the Braves game as Kathy kept score. So I stayed home from work.

With the Mac LC at home, though, I can dial in to the Mac IIcx at work and exchange files. That meant I was able to pick up Harland’s earnings release and, after several tries, dial it in to a distribution service. Vickie had warned me not to get sicker over the weekend since she was responsible for getting out the earnings release in her new position as head of Investor Relations.

Since she’s not my boss anymore, I guess my immune system ignored her. Didn’t matter, I was able to release the earnings from home, fax a copy to Vickie for confirmation, and stumble back into bed.

Came in late with three days and two nights out at Isle of Palms with Jerone. Had to make presentations to several officers from various Credit Unions in the area. All arranged by Tommy Strange from the South Carolina Credit Union League. A flamboyant bulldog with an off-color joke a minute.

After a morning presentation on Tuesday, we spent the rest of the day playing golf. Wish I played. The weather was beautiful, and the course was amazing, including the last three holes along the beach. Brad ___ had a rough day of it, but got the distinguished honor of playing off the beach on the 18th hole. About five feet from crashing waves! I should get some used clubs and play a few times on a public course so I don’t have to waste a chance like that again. At least I got my own covered cart to drive around.

Jerone and I enjoyed listening to the Braves on the way up and back. They lost on the way up, but won after our late night return.

We had to give up using our Candy Checks because First Atlanta did not sell MasterPiece checks to its customers. Now that First Atlanta has changed its name to Wachovia, I thought we might have a chance, but Richard Bright announced in Monday morning’s meeting that Harland lost central Wachovia’s check business. The rest of Wachovia may very well follow.

We’ve got to get better at selling our Jelly Beans to big banks.

Went to Lake Charles, Lousiana, Monday and Tuesday with Denise Hall from the Training Department. She is afraid of small commuter planes, so we had a one hour flight to Baton Rouge and a 2 1/2 hour drive to Lake Charles.

Met Doug Mayhall and Tommy DeBlieux (say W). Tommy knows how to ride a unicycle. We called on Calcacieu Marine Bank, an impressive building in the middle of a depressed town.