[Coco] On vacation from UPS... oh boy

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 10 March 2008, Roger Taylor wrote:
>Just some rambling about coco3.com, my second home.  I'm also on my
>2nd vacation week at UPS with no other days for the rest of the year
>(sigh), and since I'm a workaholic but in need of a small break I
>plan to 1) fish a little, *but* 2) work a Lot on Rainbow, DVDs,
>Jeweled, CCASM, client catching up, bookkeeping, dodging all calls
>from work asking me to come in today because they're backed up,
>dodging all other phone calls :), dodging stuff my kids throw around
>the house, dodging my mooching neighbors who definately know I'm home
>because my car says I am, dodging cleaning the house (heh heh), watch
>a few movies maybe if my kids didn't get all the microwave popcorn
>which they never fully eat anyway and it ends up all over the living
>room, etc. etc. etc.  I'm sUrE it's going to be a great week!  :-/  I
>can't go anywhere because the kids are in school, so I'm quite used
>to working at home through my vacations and just take weekends away
>at other times.
>
>Ok enough of that, I'm almost caught up with the DVDs, folks.  6 went
>out a while ago.  I also made the move to QuickBooks software to
>handle what has slowly become such a "busy-ness" that an e-mailer is
>not good for keeping track of.  I use to tag PayPal receipts as
>Pending, Packed, Done, etc. but when people send letters with address
>updates and other issues, there was no easy way to keep track of this
>and keep my e-mail order folders clean.  It looks like the QB
>customers and receipts system is going to work out real nice.  Now
>all orders can be kept track of Much better.
>
>So... if you've bought anything at all on coco3.com since probably,
>what, 2002?  I've got your receipts lined up all day long to be
>entered professionally from the present back to the past when I get
>time for the oldest ones. It's amazing at how busy I've been at this
>and it doesn't shock you until you look back at all the receipts,
>names, and far reached places around the world.
>
>I have to take a minute to thank everybody for keeping me this dern
>busy that it's hard to go fishing for 30 minutes.  ;)  Hey that's a
>good idea for today, only it's too cold.  Aw.  Ok, it's back to book
>entry.  Dern.  That 30lb catfish will have to wait.  And don't think
>I didn't snag at least a 4 lber the other day that got off at the
>bank after stripping my rod and reel trying to swim away!  It swam
>about 30 feet in 2 seconds and then back in the other direction, and
>it's a pond.  So... unless this is the Lochness monster, consider it
>skillet-bound sometime this week if I have time to step back there
>for a throw or two.  Anyway, my advice to anybody working their butt
>off with developing online is to... go fishing every now and then as
>it also gives you time to regroup on some ideas for when you come
>back to ... t H e  c H a I r...
>
I've heard it said by my preacher several times that you are not charged for 
the time you spend fishing when he is tallying up your alloted time here.  So 
go fish anyway.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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