Sunday, early afternoon

I did something to the left side of my neck while I slept, and woke up with a lovely crick running from the shoulderblade all the way up the the base of my skull. Slapped a Salon Pas patch on it, which has helped a little but not quite enough.

Spent the bulk of the morning reconciling two months' worth of bank statements and getting Quicken all up to date. Yes, I swore I wouldn't let myself fall behind anymore--well, darn me to heck. Glad I made the effort because I found, as ever and always, that there were entries I neglected to make in the working checkbook, which means I have less money than I thought.

I really need to keep up with this better than I do.

Some folks love Levengers for the pens and journals. I like them for the office/desk stuff, like the card bleachers I purchased recently that I hope will work as a plotting aid.

Some things that place sells, though... I took a budgeting course at the day job last year, and as a bennie they let us keep the calculator that we used to work through the assignments. It's a basic dink calculator of the sort credit card companies and magazine publishers toss you every so often when they try to sell you a new service or another years' worth. Palm of the hand-sized, very basic functions. One neat thing is that the display has a cover that flips back and serves as a stand.

Well, darned if Levengers isn't selling pretty much the same calculator for the low, low sale price of $7.95, marked down from $19.95. A couple of the buttons are different--I have a square root button while the Levengers version has +/-, and my ON button reads AC, whatever that means. Oh, and I didn't get the nifty neoprene case.

OTOH, the Levengers version doesn't come etched with my company logo.

Be that as it may, I wonder if the thing cost more than $1 to make.

Sunday, early afternoon

I did something to the left side of my neck while I slept, and woke up with a lovely crick running from the shoulderblade all the way up the the base of my skull. Slapped a Salon Pas patch on it, which has helped a little but not quite enough.

Spent the bulk of the morning reconciling two months' worth of bank statements and getting Quicken all up to date. Yes, I swore I wouldn't let myself fall behind anymore--well, darn me to heck. Glad I made the effort because I found, as ever and always, that there were entries I neglected to make in the working checkbook, which means I have less money than I thought.

I really need to keep up with this better than I do.

Some folks love Levengers for the pens and journals. I like them for the office/desk stuff, like the card bleachers I purchased recently that I hope will work as a plotting aid.

Some things that place sells, though... I took a budgeting course at the day job last year, and as a bennie they let us keep the calculator that we used to work through the assignments. It's a basic dink calculator of the sort credit card companies and magazine publishers toss you every so often when they try to sell you a new service or another years' worth. Palm of the hand-sized, very basic functions. One neat thing is that the display has a cover that flips back and serves as a stand.

Well, darned if Levengers isn't selling pretty much the same calculator for the low, low sale price of $7.95, marked down from $19.95. A couple of the buttons are different--I have a square root button while the Levengers version has +/-, and my ON button reads AC, whatever that means. Oh, and I didn't get the nifty neoprene case.

OTOH, the Levengers version doesn't come etched with my company logo.

Be that as it may, I wonder if the thing cost more than $1 to make.