Week In Review

This week has been a crazy week so let's see what I can remember

Monday - walked into work.  The building was as quiet as could be.  I breathed a quick sigh of relief for the quiet but then realized the heat pump was what made the noise.  This could only mean one thing - we did not have any air.  My suspicions were confirmed when I heard the General Manager talking to the sales guys saying he had called the landlord to report no air.  Fortunately I had taken a small fan to work last year and it was still there.  The weather was forecasting it to be a hot day - maybe the hottest day of the year so far.  I am near a large glass door so turned the lights off in my area.  When I left work the air people had not been there yet and it was 94* outside.  Stopped in to see Mother between work and home.

Tuesday - still no air.  Turned my small fan on.  Continued working on payables.  It is a never ending task.  Received notice that one of our overdue accounts had submitted payment so I forwarded that on to corporate.  The air people came around lunch.  A short in the compressor.  They would order a new compressor and currently have the air set to operate at 50%.  It had cooled down just a smidgeon when we left.

Wednesday - walked into the office and there was coolness.  By the end of the day though I wished I had turned my fan on around noon and maybe turned off the lights.  Continued working on payables and scanning.  Stopped in to see Mother on my way home.

Thursday - it was much cooler.  I don't think it got as hot outside.  I did not need my fan on at all during the day.  Worked on payables and scanning.  Also sent a few customer statements to our General Manager so he could contact the customer.

Friday - the blue screen of death greeted me when I arrived at work.  I shredded and then piddled around.  About 8:30-8:45 I restarted my computer and it worked.  Most everyone else's was operational around noon.  There were a few that had wait for IT to contact them with a code.  Went home.  John & I left.  We stopped in and visited with Mother a few minutes.  I took her my Jude Precept Upon Precept study.  Also I had a few family pictures I wanted to show her to have her tell me who they were.  She was able to tell me each one.  We ate at Chick-fil-A.  Then went and had the CRV washed.  John had received a pass for so many free washes at one of the area car washes.  We left there for John's parents and then ended the day at Wal-Mart.  It felt good to walk around some.

Saturday - we were to get our new washer.  I went and got my hair trimmed.  Shortly after I returned home a box truck backed up the driveway with our washer.  It had some damage so John refused it.  They should deliver another one this week (?).  I think they will contact John tomorrow with a delivery date.

Sunday - we visited a church in which a friend's husband is the music minister.  This morning a few songs re' faith were sung.  I was reminded of the song leader from my summer camp days.  I could see him standing at the front of the chapel and leading us in those songs.  Also could see his smile.  He is rejoicing and singing in the Lord's presence now.

Hope you all have a great week

Paper Shredder

This October 19 will be the start to my 10th year at the location I work.  Well I actually started working there the end of July but that was with a temporary agency.  When the contract period was finished, I was hired full time.  

Fast forward 3 years and my office mate had a difficult year.  She was sick at the beginning of the year.  Her mother passed away shortly after she came back to work.  Then she had appendicitis.  She was out for several weeks after her surgery.  After all that was finished, it was decided she would just stay home and not work with us anymore.  I missed her terribly but had learned to do both our jobs while she was out.

Before I came to work there, she had researched and purchased a paper shredder.  Actually the company had purchased the paper shredder.  The paper shredder did not see daily use.  Some days of use were very little.  Others were quite a bit.  Last year we started storing our documents online so I no longer needed to store those documents in folders in the file cabinet to be put in banker boxes at the end of the year and moved to storage.  I started shredding every day.

This year I noticed that shredder was sounding horrible.  I prayed the sound would stop and I would not have to purchase a shredder but the day came that I had to purchase one.  We purchase our office supplies from Quill.  I went home and for a few nights researched paper shredders and looked to see if they were available from the Quill website.  I had John look at ones to see if what I was reading was actually what the product specs were.  With a deep breath and approval from the General Manager I purchased a shredder.  This shredder has an auto feed!  I did not know shredders came with auto feeds.  You can put up to 100 sheets on the auto feed area - it takes 2-3 at a time.  The shredder has a much quieter sound than the other shredder.  The auto-feed does shred a little slower than the previous non auto-feed one but to me the value of the auto-feed outweighs the slow shredding.  I do stay close to the shredder while it is auto-feeding just in case it gets jammed.  It has happened occasionally - usually on a very humid day.

The things that make administrative assistants happy.