Our vacuum cleaner recently died.  It was on its last leg anyway as it was a hand me down from MIL.  I have no idea how much it cost originally or how many years it served her home before it found our apartment.  It would frequently turn itself off in the middle of the room.  DH refused to vacuum with it.  I often had to go over the same spot 3-4 times to pick up dust.  And I definitely had to clean the spot up by hand ahead of time to make sure nothing large would have to compete with the vacuum’s suction power.  Invariably, the large object would win. 

But now… it’s officially dead.  We put it on the curb.  Somebody with skills to fix it may be able to revive it or get some use out of it.  Otherwise it will find its way to the landfill along with the hand me down handheld vacuum cleaner and roomba that we retired earlier this year too.  It’s so frustrating to have these continued problems with vacuum cleaners.  Am I the only person who goes through this many in a year?  Perhaps I’m being too hard on myself considering they were hand-me down and yard sale items in the first place.

For now we’ll be on the hunt for a new or used one.  I entered a giveaway for a vacuum this week online and we’ll hit up the yard sales and let friends and family know we’re in need as well.  In the meantime, the dust will accumulate.   

6 Pilar yang harus membudaya :

(1) CLEAN (2) Competitive (3) Confident (4) Customer Focus (5) Capable, dan (6) Commercial.

Kalau masing-masing diukur skala nilainya dari 1-100, untuk mencapai world class company berapa nilai yang harus dicapai pada masing-masing pilar ini ?. Mungkin semuanya harus disurvey lantas dikalibrasi, pada level berapa masing-masing harus dicapai supaya satu perusahaan dapat digolongkan sebagai World Class Company. Apakah perlu juga ada pihak yang mensertifikasi bahwa company tersebut World Class ?. Dengan menggunakan beberapa audit system yang ada, bisa dilakukan bennchmarking tentang status “World Class” ini. ISO audit ataupun ISRS-7 pastinya dapat menjawab skala ukuran tersebut apakah sudah dicapai atau belum……..

so much work to do that came home on a friday night and, after a swim, did some of it. Just about done when the original ‘alfie’ came on: ‘when i look back on my little life…’. Movies from the 60s always leave me feeling kind of empty and vaguely disgusted, like a cinematic hangover, but hasn’t everyone known an alfie?

And I usually hate movies that start out making me laugh and then push me to cry. I kind of wanted him not to grow up, not to get on to himself. I liked him best before all the drama started, when he was in the doctor’s office and says something like, ‘i want the best care available - i’m even willing to pay for it!’.

All day i labored mightily to not be overwhelmed by the mountain of new information I was getting - is that making things simple? Since that is my reason to live and the only reason to draw breath on this earth, i struggled to just finish something. Never mind if it was important, necessary or anything like that. I just finished some things.

It too me almost an hour to write a simple expense report - bob came in and said they were eaiser before they were electronic. For some reason, we say electronic here when me mean ‘on the computer’.

Everyone liked my new shoes. Somehow that is the only clear thing about today.