Mike Goad on January 11th, 2008

A couple of days ago, I posted BIG BUMP in the road for my online plans…. perhaps and there were a number of comments wondering what the heck was up.
Opal already knew as I had mentioned it was a possibility a while back, so I asked her not to give up the secret. (Thanks Opal [...]

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Mike Goad on September 30th, 2007

Written September 2004
I should have been an English major — at least, that’s what Glenda told me in freshman English.
I didn’t tell her that I couldn’t take the pay cut.
Who was Glenda and why should she care about my major?
Glenda was the lady who was teaching the class and the wife of the [...]

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Mike Goad on September 6th, 2007

The last couple of days have been spent working with an installer, Ron, trying to get my satellite internet system working and training me on how to set it up and use it. It’s a new model and there have been a few wrinkles. When I leave here though, we will be comfortable [...]

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Mike Goad on September 4th, 2007

Tomorrow, I’ll be getting some OJT — on-the-job training — on how to set up an internet satellite system.
Except it’s not exactly on-the-job, since I don’t have one — a job, that is.
The guy that’s going to provide the training doesn’t have one, either. He makes some money doing it, but it’s extra money, [...]

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Mike Goad on August 15th, 2007

Last Friday, I stopped in at the training center where I used to work. I like to do that every now and again, though I’m sure as time goes by it will occur less and less often.
When I was talking to one of the operators during their lunch break, he asked me if I [...]

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Mike Goad on May 22nd, 2007

I know… I’m retired.
I shouldn’t be writing about enhanced work processes.
However, if I had figured this out, when I was still working, it might have made a few things easier.
It’s very simple — just a second monitor.
However, the way that it works is to expand the desktop. Now I can have two different aps [...]

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Mike Goad on March 8th, 2007

 
In the mid 90’s, I saved the following little piece from a magazine with the intent of perhaps using it a class some time. I forgot about it and never used it.

Two-way communication
I once worked for a rather staid corporation. At the time, a popular commercial featured a man opening his bathroom medicine cabinet [...]

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