[M.D. Holloway]

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
Shaun,
Yes & No. Here is the lay of the land for interested minds. Right now I tour the country and provide seminars on increasing uptime through better maint practices including but not inclusive to lubrication. I also establish and direct our value selling model to our sales force. I write on the side for manufacturing.net for a few reasons: 1) I like it 2) I get paid well for it 3) it provides additional personal credibility. So thats the second iron in the fire.

The teaching thing at UNT provides/provided additonal income to offset the cost of my lil princess in college. Also provides additonal credibility.

The book deal that I have with Industrial Press is the direction I am headed. It actually has very little to do with lubrication. Rather, it is focused on capturing the true cost of MRO and how to improve manufacturing uptime while decreasing the overall cost pools. This is based squarely on strategic procurement and performance based procurement. It is exhausting research yet very interesting. That is the stuff that the seminar series will be based on in a few years. Thats what the reitirement and personal freedom will be based upon.

Now, for the childrens book project. This is something that has been hanging over my head for a few years. As you may or may not remember, my Mom was a writer/poet/artist. She penned a bunch of poems about her kids as they grew up that I came into when she passed away. My ol Man loved these poems and wanted to get them published. I read them and the first thought that came to mind was how they would make a great kids book(s). I haven't followed through with it and he has been asking about my progress. He is very understanding of the load I have and is in no rush. I would like to start the ball rolling. If I put it off some more then another year goes by. At some point he is gonna die and I sure would like to get something going so he can enjoy the fact that this was done.

So, now you know the plan Stan. Simple and not as scattered as it may appear.