Good morning, and welcome back to the Red Mike. Happy Friday!
I’ve been dealing with some Gremlins today—or at least I thought they were Gremlins. Anyway, these Red Mike Messages are leadership and life lessons I’ve picked up from 25 years as a public servant, 16 years as a youth football coach and scouting volunteer, and 10 years as a mediocre athlete with far more heart than physical ability.
Today, I’m going to talk about a couple of things, including Duality. But first, here’s a quick rant—something about feeling like that meme of Homer’s dad yelling at clouds. Right now, I feel like the grumpy old man mad because they moved everything at the store, and I don’t know where anything is. Or, as in The Godfather, they’re “messing around with my arrangements.”
So here’s what happened: I write up notes every day and put them in WordPad. It’s a simple, easy word processor—not as basic as Notepad, but still straightforward. Well, Windows, in their ultimate wisdom, decided, “You don’t need WordPad anymore.” I went to my desktop and couldn’t find it.
Then I checked my taskbar, and it was gone. I thought, “What the heck?”
After freaking out, I found my documents in the saved folder, but the WordPad icon was gone. Instead, everything had the Word icon. I couldn’t get it to look the way I wanted, and after fiddling with it for a bit, I realized, “Oh, it’s 6:34—I need to get started!” A heads-up would’ve been nice, Windows. Apparently, this was part of an update back in November. I delay updates because you never know what bugs will pop up, but eventually, the nagging got to me. So, here we are.
That’s my old-man rant for the morning. Not as entertaining as yesterday’s, but hey, at least you can laugh at my expense.
Part 2 in the comments
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