vacuuming

I just turned on the vacuum cleaner to do the daily run-around. It went for about 20 seconds and then made a *bzzt whutft* noise followed by silence, and the smell of burnt post-electrical. I am wondering if this is a bad thing.

Well, life is vanity anyway.

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

-Ecclesiastes 2:11


and later in the same chapter

22 What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 23 For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.