Friday. I can remember a time I lived for Friday, but for so long it has just seemed like one more day in a progression of endless days. I guess the jobsite does that to you. Out there it doesn't matter, day or night, Tuesday or Saturday. The only benchmarks of note are maintenance Sunday's and two hours off on Thanksgiving and two days at Christmas (if we are still on site).

I am about to go stir crazy. I have sat at my desk so much this week that my butt hurts. (It is really bad when your butt suffers from ADD.) Yesterday was back to reconciling reports and it was a weird day. I have had calculators spin some ridiculous numbers when they were on their last equations but I am wondering if mine at the jobsite was having early alzheimers. I am on my third and final report. It is an annual one. I ran across a sixteen cent error yesterday. It took a couple of hours to find it but I did. Then I found another sixteen cent error. This one didn't take too long because I had a good idea where to look. Things sped along until I ran across a $300 shortage and I have to admit that was my mistake. I believe I just had a mis-step with my fat sausage fingers and hit a one instead of a four. Then I ran across a three cent error followed by an $80 overage (This resulted from Krl making the payroll tax deposit on numbers that counted on a worker finishing the season. He didn't and was disqualified for his seasonal bonus. So the deposit was more than it should have been). The final error was another three cents. Once again since it was a familiar number I knew where to look. Sure enough, it was easily found.

This week would make a strong argument for software Krl and I have been wanting. It would eliminate the need for me spending endless hours looking at this screen and pecking on these keys. As I had said earlier, what we are using are a series of excel spreadsheets that are "tied" together. Problem is, I have only tied them "by quarter", so the annual reports are still a pain in the year end.

Krl and I had discussed the possibility of contacting the software company and visiting with them. The software isn't too terribly expensive but they get you on the nethasp licensing. We are wondering about a pier to pier network or even getting one of the big memory keys and having the program on it. Actually this makes a lot of sense because regardless of where we were and what computer was available, we would have the program and be able to work with it. Draw back would be only one of us could work on it at a time. (Heh, guaranteed downtime!)

I have one W-2 remaining that I need information for. After that I need to get my information together for the company's 1099's. Then we will go through the wait to see if any of the recipients have a problem before printing the summary.

I am so close, I can almost see the finish of my job. Oh joy! Right, it's these kinds of projects that make me want to be jobless.

This has been a really good week with Krl. Sometimes we just seem to be so in synch. I will start to say something, she will finish it or vice versa. It is almost spooky!

We were reading the newspaper yesterday and ran across an insert. It is kind of a summary of local news that is directed more at the rural areas. However, on one page we found a listing of honor role students for the Abilene Middle Schools and High Schools. Lrn was on it at Abilene High. Ln was on it at Lincoln Middle School, and Jordan was on it at Cooper. Of course Kat is in the gifted and talented program at Austin Elementary and doing very well! (Neither of her sisters were in it.)

Trc came by briefly yesterday. It was the first time we have seen her since Christmas. She dropped off our big crock pot, our big dutch oven, and a basket that we had taken treats in. In exchange we gave her a gift that we had ordered but it didn't come in before Christmas. I had wrapped it several weeks ago and while she was unwrapping it I was telling her this item is not available in stores! She got tickled and told us that Kat is really into those info-mercials and the fact that their merchandise is not available in stores.

Krl and I need to make a decision about Holt's birthday party. They have rescheduled it for tomorrow morning at 10:30. That's pretty early for a Saturday when you are a three hour drive away. Our biggest concern is whether or not this "bug" we have been battling is still with us. Trc told us that just when it seems as though their family has beaten it (after a month), one of Brently's co-workers is just now getting it. (Three of them were scheduled to leave either late yesterday or early today. Trc told him he should refuse to let the "carrier" go. Knowing their luck they will start the vicious cycle over again.)

Miss Ollie has called the last two days. I know I am not very sympathetic. It just seems like she makes bad decision after bad decision, and puts too much faith in people who aren't trustworthy. My sentiments are and will be "you can't wrestle a pig without getting dirty". I find myself thinking the absolute worst when Ollie is telling her latest tale of woe. And that is really sad from a parents stand point.

I am finding that I enjoy night television more than day television. My latest laughing spell was triggered by a classic Gilda Radner, Gene Wilder movie. The best part of having a simple mind is that it is easily stimulated.

Well, lots of words to have not said much.

Have a Friday!

FATHER, fill this day. Expand us, keep us from evil, and help us to do good.