OK, so what does this portend? Even though I've been away from work for more than two years, I've kept up some of my connections to the technical writing community. One connection is a subscription to a long-standing, email-based tech writing group, Techwr-l (tech writing list). Techwr-l has been around for nearly a dozen years. It's been fun to search the archives and see some of my posts from long-gone email addresses.
Recently, I received a message from the Techwr-l administrator, informing me that my name had been selected at random from the list of subscribers and that I would receive a free admission to next week's Doctrain East conference. This includes passes to the pre- and post-conference training workshops, four days of technical documentation training and presentations, valued at nearly a thousand bucks.
I'm a guy who never buys lottery or raffle tickets, who has been to Vegas and never wagered a cent in the casinos. To win something such as this is, well, I don't know what it means.
Oh, and early next month, I'll attend a seminar on patent searches. A friend and former co-worker is now an intellectual property attorney. She sent me the notice of the seminar. I may do some part-time patent researching.
All of which reminds us that you don't have to know where you're going to get there.
Recently, I received a message from the Techwr-l administrator, informing me that my name had been selected at random from the list of subscribers and that I would receive a free admission to next week's Doctrain East conference. This includes passes to the pre- and post-conference training workshops, four days of technical documentation training and presentations, valued at nearly a thousand bucks.
I'm a guy who never buys lottery or raffle tickets, who has been to Vegas and never wagered a cent in the casinos. To win something such as this is, well, I don't know what it means.
Oh, and early next month, I'll attend a seminar on patent searches. A friend and former co-worker is now an intellectual property attorney. She sent me the notice of the seminar. I may do some part-time patent researching.
All of which reminds us that you don't have to know where you're going to get there.
1 comment:
aha! well i'll be at the DT conference, so perhaps we'll see each other there? should be an interesting time and if you do go, it will be fun to compare notes.
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