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| Locale: Sacramento, California This week finds me in smoke filled Sacramento California for a class with the Office of Emergency Services. It's a 'radio' class, one that covers one of our handheld and mobile radios. It's not an overly tough subject, but it has been a little challenging. More on that in a minute. Things have gone well really, other than a small bump on Monday. Every once in a while I have a student in class who has been around a while, and either knows A LOT, or wants certain 'pet subjects' covered. In this case, there's a man in class who fits both descriptions. The biggest issue in his eyes, is that he want only those subjects covered, despite the fact that there are newer people in the class who really need the full curriculum. Besides, if I covered only his pet topics, the class would only last a couple of days, and they've paid for five days of training. Believe it or not, I think we've met on a common ground, and for the most part, have gotten along well. So well, that he asked me for my business card today. He either wants it as a dart board object, or to remind him of this class and how upset he was at times, or really wanted it so he could call me with any questions that may pop up in the future. How did we manage to get to this point? I've answered every question he asked, we discussed subjects in radio frequency that a lot of technicians in today's world have little knowledge of. Best of all, we solved one of the issues he was complaining about. To make it short, he complained that in replacing a board in a radio, that it would fail with an error code, even though he 'followed the procedure'. To make sure I knew what he was talking about, he replaced the board in class. I watched him, made sure he was following the steps correctly, and sure enough, at the end, the radio rebooted as it should have, and operated normally. I didn't do a thing. I just watched them do the work. But I think that knowing the procedure, the expected results and all got us (him) 'over-the-hump'. Noteworthy Restaurants: (There's no dining in here in Sacramento, it's all take out) Kabob King https://www.kababkingonline.com/ I went there tonight, ordered a couple of small appetizers, and a Shrimp Buryani. The appetizers were an order of 2 Samosa's, which I thought were small, as they have been in the past, and an order of Fish Patora. First, the Samosa's were the size of my fist! The Fish Pakora was in a small styrofoam box, but dang, that box was packed! We won't mention how huge the Buryani is. Let's just say I have lunch for the next two days of work. Bonchon Natomas https://www.bonchonnatomas.com/menu I'm loving all the oriental food I can get around here. Their Shrimp Shumai and Bulgogi were excellent. I had the Bulgogi for lunch the following day since it was also pretty large In Closing I will spend the weekend at home before going to Schaumburg for a class with the Transportation Security Agency next week. Til next time, be good to yourselves and those you love, and WRITE!  Jim Dorrell |
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