That’s not the way they do it in Roll Coating.

So, remember I was telling you about the "job description", and how I'd asked Judy what was up, and how she said, "I'll get back to you next week, in and out, you know". Well, today she did.

She says, "We'll need to talk today". Says I, "What about?" She says, "Pat says that's not the way they do it in Roll Coating (meaning my job description is out), you're going to have to take this up with Harvey". She says,"Harvey wants to know what you want to do, so go tell him".

My reply, simply "I want my own Department not some crummy job like the motor pool, or intensifying screen, or I could do the Enterprise System thing for Harvey but I don't think he has the guts for it “. She says, "Why not just go for it?”

I said to Harvey today "I'm looking forward to talking to you Harvey, I have a lot to say" and he said,"Good, and not everyone takes me up on the offer".

Eunice, Harvey’s Secretary, said the meeting is the week after the forth of July shutdown.

“This old man, he played one,

he played nick-knack on his drum

with a nick-knack, paddywack

give the man a bone,

this old man is fifty-one”.

Harvey and I talked almost entirely about the painter Juan Miro. He had a small replica of a Miro work in his office, which I noticed, and the discussion mostly focused on art. The meeting was half an hour, scheduled, but we talked an hour and a half. Shortly thereafter I was offered another position that would guarantee my current salary, but I had to give up what I was currently working on, my choice, of course.

In accepting this assignment I came to realize that by not offering solutions to the many problems facing us all, and Harvey had already appointed someone else to solve these problems, I was now assigned to the sidelines, until further notice. The pay was the same the responsibilities far, far less, only the ego had to be held in check.

Ego seems a small price to pay.