Mike to Write Blog Posts
I spent just over four years in the United States NAVY as a Fire Control Technician. (Like missile firing not the hot red flames and smoke type of fire). It did not take me long to learn that the word NAVY was actually an acronym for Never Again Volunteer Yourself. But in the world of ETC you do not need to volunteer, you just need to show a little interest in any project that David Lincecum is involved with and you will quickly find yourself doing stuff you thought was kind of neat but were glad that others were working on. This is how I find myself writing a ‘Light Minds’ blog on the ETC forum. How it went down…mostly:
From: Mike Meskill
Sent: Wed 6/18/2008 3:05 PM
To: David Lincecum
Subject: Who are the special people?
David, who are the special people that actually get to create blogs? Am I special? Wait…don’t answer that. I have been thinking about an EU perspective but want to ensure I / we can stay committed to the task. I would see me / us sending things to you for review before posting. {I / we; me / us meaning that I would have the permission to post but would get inputs from ETC Ltd and GmbH}
25 hours latter:
From: John Kuehl
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:53 PM
To: David North; Joe Kirschling; Mike Meskill
Cc: David Lincecum
Subject: welcome, new blog contributors
Each of you have been identified or self-identified as new contributors to our group blog, "Light Minds Think Alike", or, "Light Minds". I went ahead and gave you all the necessary permissions to begin posting.
So here I am adding my first post to this blog and with the help of the employees of ETC GmbH in Germany and ETC Ltd in the UK I hope to provide some interesting and timely updates.
Sincerely, (American English)
Cheers! (British English)
mit freundlichen Grüβen, (German)
Mike Meskill
European Service Manager, ETC