Sunday, early afternoon
Mar. 26th, 2006 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithI 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.
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.
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Date: 2006-03-27 06:32 pm (UTC)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. :-)
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Date: 2006-03-27 10:39 pm (UTC)All Clear--heh. Like a foghorn should blow every time I press the button.