SuperGlue’s Random Thoughts

Earlier this morning there has been some discussion on Cappuccino timeline about matigo's plan of developing a new version of 10C that would support indieweb.From what I gathered from the posts,it sound like there would be some interesting enhancements coming along, including capability to have multiple personas within a single account sign-on, crossposting from different personas, some improvements to To Dos etc.

Later in the afternoon I asked a few questions from matigo to get some clarifications about these enhancements and his immediate response was the new version of 10C (10Cv5) is going to be based on self-hosting rather than being able to access from mobile platforms and desktop as I've been doing since I joined 10C a couple of years back. When I heard this, I got very dissappointed & sad, as I have no knowledge and skills of self-hosting department. So I conveyed my message to matgo on Cappuccino. He responded to to give assurance that hosted solution will there to say for next 990 years. I have no idea about the technology behind 10C and all what I look forward to is being able to continue what I have been enjoying on 10C offerings and from what I read,it's going to be interesting times!

Day job at HQ today. Five Meetings were in the schedule. One got cancelled with a couple of hours notice. Two out of Four, which I facilitated, I walked away with decisions made and Action Items agreed. Feel good! The other two ended up with nothing! All the time I had put to prep for the last two meetings were just waste of productive time, to say the least.

Was being productive in the 1st half of the day, working on SPML Project progress and breifing ODM crew an a collague of their tasks & what is expected. Later,facilitate the meeting with clear & specific objectives and decsions made & action items agreed. Haven't sent out the Meeting Notes yet though, which I'm hoping to achieve tomorrow. There was also an opportunity this morning for coaching of a collague in strucured way of working, which was great.

This afternoon, we had our 1st meeting with the new divisional leader. Meeting lasted two & half hours and lots of topics were discussed and questions were asked by the leader. A few notable themes that stood out were, not in any particular order though

• Galley Plans 3600 packing lists…?
• Variance in Dry Boxes & Beverage Trolleys
• Bar Coding VS Color Coding
• Aged economy class product
• Water cup inside a Tea Cup…?
• Need of change in the product offered - more food - 400 grams!
• Oven space
• Carrying Champagne from here to Europe & back - weight, carbon footprint
• Biodegradable material
• Too many Projects, too much steam, nothing get delivered

Overall, the new leader displayed simplicity,structure and need to act fast! He also gave us the indication that need of questioning the status quo , though he did not use exact words.

I walked out of the meeting room with the intention of taking initiative and driving two items from the above list.

• To find out facts about oven inserts discussed at the meeting
• To explore how could we have color coded labels

Without much waiting, I got on with my facts findings immediately, next day morning by visiting to the kitchen, inspecting, measuring and taking photos of three different type of oven inserts and finally emailing to Delphinios,Cadmus
. Not that, I'd want a pat on the back from him for such a simple task; but up until this moment, he has not even acknowledged the email.
It has also been the same with the dolour coded labels; even after I had personally spoken to another department and initiating discussions on how could we pursue developing a dolour coded labels and completed the required Product Review Brief form. Anyway, when I informed all what I have done to the Cadmus, his immediate words to me was "don't meddle with the paddle" - I think he must have referred to the bar coding project which is in progress. My response was that, it's not that I'm meddling with anything; but just doing the initial research, to which he did not show any interest.

Spent almost the entire day in the Kitchen. 1st day after Bryan's retirment. Discussed & assigned 80+ FA Reports, Meeting with SF to brief & obtain his agreement for placemats that are being considered for a new service offering in permium cabin.
I followed a new style of discussing the FA Reports- by sub-categories as it gives a way to draw out trends immediately. For instance, for last 3 days, there have been a trend of reports on flowers & new microwave jugs. It took about an hour to finished Reports for the weekend.

As for the nee product item - placemats, there seems a quite a few challenges/concerns as it does require significant amount of manual processing. Will be able to get more feedback after the forthcoming trials will be completed by towards the end of the month.

One thing that has been troubling my mind for the day was whether we were going to well manage the meal ordering during planned computer program outage in the early afternoon.This feeling was particularly becuase I wasn't very confident and pleased with the level of pre-planning done by my collagues. Anyway, until the time I left work, I hadn't not heard any issues with it. That's said, as it does normally happens in the business, you hear about any issues only after a few days of the event. So, will have to wait & see!

So, it was official departmental farewell for Brook Nomina earlier this afternoon. There was cake, tea/coffee & soft drinks, lots of appulase in the crowd. Lots of people gathered to bid farewell for this legend, who is retiring after 26 years of service in the company. There were two speeches - all good about BN. One was natural & unprepared without a script and the other was opposite. Both speeches were centered all good about & hunci-dori. That was true about the person. I've been very close to the entire episode how Nomina got attached to working with me about two years ago. One statement I can never forget the Cadmus said was " he's dead wood" . I have to say and one day some day, I will tell that person, No, you were wrong, I made that dead wood; live by the time he was retiring" BN, indeed did so well in the role he has been doing. I decribed my mate as "wit & humor, Spontaneous, Loyal, Awesome, Passionate, Patience and Crazy Busy! He IMOH he has always been!

All these corporate farewells are bull-shit! You'd be better without one! Signing offf!

I think a couple of months back I had cancelled the subscription here hoping there would be some enhancements coming soon to 10C, so that I could host all of my blog sites within 10C. For me, the main attractions on 10C are it's devloper being very approachable & responsive to queries,to be able to create almost unlimited number of blog sites, ability to be able to upload image & audio files and last, but not least it's affordable pricing model. Unforunately though,much anticipated enhancements haven't materlize yet, as expected. It's not because the developer is not interested; but becuase he has not been able to find time on top of his his commitements to his day job and other things.
After much thought, last week I thought, I'd give this place another try and sent email to people at Ghost Support to allow me here on trial again. I was quite impressed that Sarah from Ghost Support promptly responded back to me within 24 hours granting my request for trial for another two weeks. So, here I'm back on here, giving it another try, truly becuase I love it's plain white minimilistic interface blend with simplicity, availaibility of native apps for both mac OS & Adndroid and also the customer service expereince I have had thus far:)

We've decided to move from our current house. A couple of weeks back, we had looked at a couple of houses in the close proximity of our work place. Out of four houses, we saw we both liked the one we saw last. A two story house with four need rooms and nice little garden. We thought the rents are too high. Not necessarily, we can't afford to, but savings, after moving out from company provided accomodation and paying for all other things like water, electricity etc wouldn't make much sense.
Then, we looked at a couple of apartments earlier this evening and even they range from 115K to 130K. Now we are discussing the options we have and possible short listing from properties we have seen so far.

We've decided to move from our current house. A couple of weeks back, we had looked at a couple of houses in the close proximity of our work place. Out of four houses, we saw we both liked the one we saw last. A two story house with four need rooms and nice little garden. We thought the rents are too high. Not necessarily, we can't afford to, but savings, after moving out from company provided accomodation and paying for all other things like water, electricity etc wouldn't make much sense.
Then, we looked at a couple of apartments earlier this evening and even they range from 115K to 130K. Now we are discussing the options we have and possible short listing from properties we have seen so far.

I wrote this quickly on the other side yesterday.

Mrs. just asked me whether I would be going to church this afternoon. I haven’t been to church since at least for a 2-3 weeks. With this intermittent depression , I’ve been going through since 2nd week of January, I haven’t really been motivated to do anything. Just been hanging around; except of course when at the day job, where I have a commitment to perform my accountabilities to best of my ability. The intermittent back pain which first started off with neck pain and visits to the doctor & Physiotherapy haven’t made life any better too. Everyday, I’m hoping that this too will pass. I’m really hoping so. And I am also hoping that I will soon be able to get back to at least a little bit of spirtuality!

Mrs. just asked me whether I would be going to church this afternoon. I haven’t been to church since at least for a 2-3 weeks. With this intermittent depression , I’ve been going through since 2nd week of January, I haven’t really been motivated to do anything. Just been hanging around; except of course when at the day job, where I have a commitment to perform my accountabilities to best of my ability. The intermittent back pain which first started off with neck pain and visits to the doctor & Physiotherapy haven’t made life any better too. Everyday, I’m hoping that this too will pass. I’m really hoping so. And I am also hoping that I will soon be able to get back to at least a little bit of spirtuality!