1 February 2017, 6 pm
My problem with Council has been resolved. Because apparently, the exact same issue has been debated before, and an answer was reached which will allow me to do paid work for CIPA, so long as it is not basic Council work like turning up to meetings and reading the papers beforehand and adding punctuation to the draft minutes and stuff. The answer was first reached in 1996. It was reached again in 2011 because everybody had forgotten about reaching it in 1996. And most people had forgotten about the 2011 decision too, apart from one or two smart folk who told Mr Davies to look back through the archives and find the old Council minutes. If there is one sure way to spoil Mr Davies’s day, it is to ask him to look back through the archives of CIPA Council minutes. But luckily, thanks to the wonders of electronic document storage, he found the relevant papers and everything became clear again. This caused a certain amount of harrumphing, which is what some of our Council members do when they are denied an Argument with Andrea. I know full well that after the meeting, they will go down the pub together and harrumph in more specific terms until someone agrees to debate the issue again at next month’s meeting, just in case the decision taken today, and in 2011, and in 1996, is a rubbish decision after all. This is how all important meetings work. Agendas are compiled based on the volume of harrumphing that goes on during the seven days following the last meeting, together with the volume of whinging that goes on during the seven days before the next one. For the avoidance of doubt, you cannot get paid for Council-related harrumphing. By the time I leave CIPA, I have discussed the 2017 Congress; CIPA’s investment portfolio; the IP administrators’ course; the Benevolent Association’s annual accounts; the latest news about the UPC; CIPA’s relationships with other IP organisations, who are not as good as CIPA but nevertheless rudely continue to exist; our relationship with IPReg, which also rudely continues to exist except in much more friendly terms these days; and several important typos in the minutes of previous meetings. It has been such a hectic few hours, my new HRT patch curls up and falls off. They do not make HRT patches strong enough to cope with a whole day at CIPA.
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