I was going to write a long post about what I was doing this afternoon, but I'm short on time, and I've got a bunch of pictures that I suddenly remembered that I wanted to add to it.  So I copied what I had written into notepad, and I'll post it all later (either later tonight or tomorrow) when I've got a little more time.

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     One of the things about living in small towns, is that when folks head into one of the bigger centres or the cities, they might pick up things for folks back home.  Whenever I head to Calgary for example, I check to see if any of our friends need anything from Costco, or Princess-Auto, etc.  Also, if I'm in one of these stores and I see ( Read more... )

     I've spent the better part of the day crunching data into the accounting program.  I thought that the Income was going to be the easy part, but I was horribly wrong about that!  It's far more complex than the expenses, but little by little I'm understanding the way the program works, and how to work around things.  I've only got November and ( Read more... )

     Winter has arrived here for all practical intents and purposes, even if the official start of Winter is still more than a month away.  The first real snow came down last Monday, and thanks to the cold temperatures it's still here.  Some of it has managed to melt a little as there has been a day or two of warmer weather, but that's pretty much ( Read more... )

 
     ...That pretty much describes the day.  The temperature itself was only in the single negative digits, but with the windchill it was certainly unpleasant enough.  Big, wet, heavy flakes of snow in the early morning, gradually giving way to smaller flakes and then freezing rain.  The forecast calls for highs of +24c by Saturday, but I'll ( Read more... )

    I finally got around to setting up an account for Iron Pony with the Quickbooks Software from Intuit.  It took me the better part of the afternoon (and evening), but I entered all of my invoices, completed my inventory, and balanced the chequebook ( Read more... )