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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Change (the order form)

Finally someone who wants to help. I’ve mentioned before that I’m a fan of process improvement. At least of making an attempt to make things better. Last week all the permanent board members met and discussed things we wished were better with our jobs and the process. We came up with many ideas – some easy to do and others much harder. And then last night and again today I met with some people who work on the base that may actually be able to provide some of those changes – Hallelujah. I know things won’t change over night, but I hope we can set some things in motion that will make it better down the road. (They are all process stuff with our courts - not standard of living morale kind of things).

I’ve developed a theory of why we suddenly seem to run out of food items in the D-FAC at what seems like a random intervals. I think the food order form only has so many slots – and the number items we need is larger than the slots available. So somewhere the supply clerk (could be ex-PFC Wintergreen from Catch-22) has to decide what item to not order. Sometimes it’s Dr P (yikes), sometimes it’s milk, once it was cereal, then there was lettuce for a while, currently it is – Sugar. There was no sweet-tea for dinner tonight. Just un-sweet. I’ve mentioned this theory to others and they all agree it is plausible. Just tonight I mentioned it to Matt (he and I have been sitting on boards together recently…so I’m making a shout-out to his folks). Anyway he agreed my idea had merit. I’ll keep you posted on the support behind this theory.

Did I mention that Brandon also read the Fiery Gates – and he said he liked it as well? So it must be a good book – two of us liked it.

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