Recap

Friday was K's night out with her coworkers, so I was a complete slug - beer and video games and conversations. Also decided to be stealth entrepreneurs with delicarose; details to follow.

Saturday was spent doing errands and playing more video games and having a couple of beers while hanging out with online folks. Also, amusing myself by poking at this.

Yesterday was more of the same, including reading a couple of the books we acquired on Saturday [one of which I hope will have positive consequences], as well as doing laundry & playing catch (ow, sore shoulder) after getting K addicted to Yetisports. Muahahahah.

I'm well aware that I'm boring. Shaddap.

Today is yet TBD, depending on what kind of freak jackass the boss is. Anyone know a good resource for Excel templates beyond what Office comes bundled with? (Incidentally, Office SP 3 is out, and I need to find my installation CD so I can update. . . which means I need to clean my fucking desk.]

Wednesday at 4pm, I have an interview to do network support & maintenance for my apartment complex part time. Figure it'll be a rent credit kind of deal, at least until we pick up stakes for wherever, depending on the hours required if I get the gig.

From the "I'm better than MSFT, and I can prove it" department:

So, for those of you I haven't bitched to prodigiously about being made responsible for doing the office's bookkeeping. . . I'm responsible for doing the office bookkeeping.

[Yes, you bet your collective heinies that I'm going to invoice for the $20 an hour difference between what I get paid and what our bookkeeper gets paid come payday this week.]

So, the boss and I hunted down some templates (the balance sheet one included in Office XP [okay, where the fuck is my CD? Must.clean.home.desk!] is really adequate, but locked down to ten transactions or less, period. I hatehatehate multisheet implementations, so a carryover balance is not an option, especially since I batch process expenses once or twice a month, and there are fifteen or so of those suckers). . . and, lo and behold, there's one on office.microsoft.com called "Checkbook Register," which is just what we want - enter date, transaction #, description, and amount, and it spits out a running balance. . . but, fuck, is it inelegant:
=IF(AND(ISBLANK(D6),ISBLANK(E6)),"",F5-D6+E6)
This increments up for each line. Ugh. Okay, I can see why you might not want a duplicate entry of the last item for the pending transaction lines [personally, I don't give a shit], but I like the simplicity of a single-cell running balance, as implemented by Yours Truly:
=SUM((SUM(C8:C102))-(SUM(D8:D102)))

Of course, we already have Peachtree, as well as our bank's online service center to track transactions, but, really, let's have one more place I need to enter all this shit every time we write a check or make a deposit. It's one more little thing for me to write down for the poor fuck who gets this desk after I bail.

Amusing

Came back from lunch today to some music that sounded kind of familiar. . .

The other guys here were listening to [and being intrigued by] this, which I'd forwarded to the staunch Dem in the office who was in Tampa on Friday.

spamku - "make huge profits on ebay" was the unspoken message. obviously.

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