Sunday, early afternoon

[ksmith]

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.

Comments

[affinity8.livejournal.com]

I almost almost almost almost bought the Levenger's bleachers, cuz they look so nice! But at the store I wondered if perhaps they weren't too shallow to really keep the cards upright. And I figured I could use the desk space for something else. But oh! I still covet!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It is very, very well-made. Heavier than you might think it would be. The cards can flop a bit--the fit into the slots isn't tight, nor are the slots aren't as deep as I thought they'd be. The cards do stay upright, but if you accidentally knock the thing over, the cards will spill out.

I bought the natural cherry version, which can darken over time. Yes, it is prettier than sticky notes on the wall, and it has a pretty small footprint. Say, a foot and a half by 3 inches.

If I ever sell the fantasy trilogy, though, it will come in handy to keep the plotlines straight.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

My desk space is pretty tight as well. I keep the bleachers on the back edge, up against the wall.

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

Sheesh! Did we have the same sleep demons last night or what? I woke up this morning with my neck slightly out and the outage radiating down into my top of my shoulder and down into the ball joint. Cranky. (Now, if it would just releeeeeease!)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Mine's still tight--I look like Igor when I try to turn my head to the left.

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

Hrm, I always use a cheapie scientific if I need a calculator. I can never tell when I'll need to do logarithms or trig.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I have a scientific calculator for the tricky stuff, but the simple one is good enough for checkbook balancing.

The day I need logarithms to balance the books is the day that I turn *everything* over to a CPA.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

AC means All Clear. Usually to differentiate from C or CE which means Clear or Clear Example.

In otherwords, when you turn your calculator on by pressing AC, you'll start with everything at 0. A strict on/off would start your calculator wherever you left it when you turned it off. (Handy when you're balancing your check book month to month, and it automatically starts on the last figure in your checkbook balance that you entered. Other than that, I've never seen a need for it.)

It's really only useful when you have memory functions, and need to clear the memory as well as whatever's in the display.

Which is probably more than you ever wanted to know about calculators. :-)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

No, any info is good info.

All Clear--heh. Like a foghorn should blow every time I press the button.