Journal by Sil
1 February 2000
8:50 p.m. Hayden's Cello Concerto #1 is galloping gracefully on the radio. Kate and I have just come back from our romp in the snow, and she is now content to bask in the warm for a while. I brought her some left-over chicken soup when I came home from work which pleased her mightily.
I'm struggling with the new bookkeeping program at work. Right now, it seems like I'll never wrap my brain around the logic of it, but I remember feeling the same about the other program, last summer. I lugged the instruction manual home tonight and need to put in some serious time with it. Lea is taking some of the receptionist load off at work so's I can concentrate, which is helping a lot. But I don't suppose that I can really expect to have it down cold in 2 days.
I gave myself until the end of the month to have everything down pat and squared away. Just today, Lea told me the Board of Directors is meeting the 18th, so I had a well-disguised panic attack, thinking of trying to have proper financial statements ready by then!! AARRGGHH!!! Well, at least I've got the payroll entered correctly for January, and have started entering the Jan. receipts, rebuilding customers' files as I go. Lea thinks she may be able to get a volunteer to do data-entry some mornings this week. Reconstructing all the Jan. invoices should be fun...not! Yet, all it really requires is re-entering the data from the ad insertion sheets. They just won't have the same numbers that I assigned them originally...we'll have to identify them by the newspaper's issue dates.
Carl had a stash of customer statements, everyone who owed us money at the start of January, and I'm reconstructing their files first. Then, when I finish entering the receipts from them, the balances should be up-to-date relatively painlessly.
Well, working with a volunteer is always a little adventure in personal interaction, discovering the best way to get ideas across. The two who re-organized the filing system were great self-starters, needing nearly no supervision. All I had to do was tell them what Carl and I wanted (we're the ones who use the files most often). Then we brainstormed the best tactics to achieve our goals most efficiently.
Back to the basic pleasures of life: I got some Cortland apples the other day that I just can't let alone. I've eaten a whole bag in 3 days! Guess I'll have to go get some more. Don't know what's come over me. I don't normally eat that many apples in a winter.