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My name is Greg Maxey. I am recently retired from the U.S. Navy and now living in Marble NC.  That's me off to the port side.  While I have taken off the uniform for the last time, I am remiss in providing an updated picture.  I will get to it soon.  I hope.

 

I spent a total of 30 years, 2 months and 20 days in military service to the United States.  I began my Navy career as a Seaman Recruit when I entered the service and slowly climbed the ladder to finally retire as a Commander (Limited Duty/Submarine Ordnance).  The Navy was a great adventure.  Previous duty assignments spanned the globe.  I lived in Scotland, Hawaii, Guam, Japan and up and down the U. S. eastern seaboard and I had some fantastic experiences on and below the vast Pacific and Atlantic oceans as a crew member and "shipmate" on USS FRANK CABLE (AS 40), USS NEW YORK CITY (SSN 696), USS SIMON LAKE (AS 33), USS VON STEUBEN (SSBN 632), USS DANIEL BOONE (SSBN 629) and USS JAMES K. POLK (SSBN 645). For more information on these magnificant ships, see the links on my Odds & Ends page.

 

I started monkeying around in the Microsoft Word newsgroups about five years ago and in April 2003 I was proclaimed a Microsoft Word MVP.  I suspect that my nomination and award was not for how much I know, but for how much I enjoy helping other people work through and use some of the many Word features. Posting tips for using Word was my primary reason for creating this page.

Some of my favorite parables, quips, and quotes:

Ø      “Wherever you go, there you are.”  Buckaroo Bonsai

Ø      "When you come to a fork in the road....Take it " Yogi Berra

Ø      "The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese."

Ø      "Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." Winston Churchill

Ø      “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain

Ø      “Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them the rest of us could not succeed.” Mark Twain

Ø      “Yo Pilgrim, life's tough.  It's tougher when you're stupid.”

Ø      "Sarumo kikara ochiru".  ("Even monkeys fall from trees").  Japanese Proverb

Ø      "Into each life a little rain must fall . . . some days must be dark and dreary."  Longfellow

Ø      "Never use more than 3 words to say "I don't know!"

Ø     If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there!" And then a reader reminded me "Every wanderer is not lost."

Ø     If you can't point to the person responsible ... nobody is. - ADM Hyman Rickover

Ø   Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way, you're absolutely correct. - Henry Ford

Ø   When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. - John Ruskin

Ø   You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.  We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth , or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.  If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here.  We did all that could be done.  
President Ronald Reagan
  (I think the great man would want all of us to always vote for a REPUBLICAN).

Ø   Freeedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.  Ronald Reagan

That's  it for the main page.  I will come along side periodically and post a few Word Help & Tips and other things that might be of interest.

 

 

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 This page was last updated on June 04, 2008

 

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