Hi All,

I'm sure just like me you've heard of people working in buildings and no one can ever identify what the problem is and eventually they have to move them someplace else.

Well, starting tomorrow my building is being evacuated and I'm going someplace else. So what's the problem? People who get hives from head to toe, or isolated cases of hives, nausea, a genuine taste of chlorine, headaches and even one person sensed numbness on part of his face.

While the "problem" usually arrived with warmer weather, not so this year. And despite testing everything above and below ground, all test results even by a haz mat team have proven inconclusive. (and we thought EQ prediction was difficult). The building at one time was occupied as a beauty salon, which of course used some strong chemicals in bleaching hair and the location where they were used was torn up last year, the floor sealed and recarpeted and even though no one uses that space, the smell has returned strongly.

So like all challenges in life, this one had to be met and solved and the company I work for I have to say fortunately is large enough to handle the task at hand. As our main headquarters is in Walnut Creek, we Sonoma folks are being treated to being bused to Walnut Creek at our usual starting time, being fed a totally free lunch and bused back to arrive at our normal quitting time.

The efforts required to accomodate what seems simple are not quite so, but we are in modern times, so its just a matter of rolling over the phones, the fax and getting the mail one day late. We don't have paper files anymore and the poor computer person has to come and collect all of the units tomorrow very early and reinstall them at the Creek before we arrive.

While we are only about 20 in number, our sales records are impressive and the term that is often used around our places is "Sonoma Rocks!" So while there is some time left tonight, I've got to make a banner for our grand entrance in our new quarters tomorrow that says "Sonoma Rocks at the Creek."

Of course Walnut Creek is really close to Dublin and San Ramon and you have to know I'm hoping to catch that earthquake experience and soon. So wish all of us luck in adjusting to something totally new, odd as can be and still #1 in sales.

And yes, I did figure out how to sneak the afternoon cocktails onto the bus without the driver knowing we are drinking anything other than lemonade. Gotta love Bartles & James in a container that says Minute Maid on it.

Friday morning we'll go for something that looks like V-8 juice. LOL

Petra