I should not complain...

[alexpgp]

Speaking of gripes, I just spent two hours nailing down some recent invoices.

Part of the time was spent backtracking, as I sat and scratched my head wondering what had happened to an invoice I thought I had written, but which I had not.

That should teach me to not make exceptions to my informally stated rule of: Don't turn the computer off without invoicing completed work, or making some unmistakable gesture (like writing words in blood on the bathroom mirror) to make sure you don't forget to do so!

A rule I did not forget today was my other invoicing rule of thumb: Don't consider the invoicing as complete until you've transmitted an invoice to the client!

Part of the tedium, of course, has to do with folks that still want you to return a signed something-or-other as part of their process. Fortunately, my Strobe XP100 is helping out tremendously with that. (It's actually easier to print out the form, sign it, and scan it with the Strobe than it is to embed a signature graphic in it.)

* * *There was nothing to eat in the house earlier in the day, so Galina took me out to lunch. Her first preference was a Luby's, but the one we stopped at had an arctic temperature setting inside and a very long line for service. My next preference was a Vietnamese phơ restaurant, where I had a soup, Galina had charbroiled chicken over steamed rice, and we both had a spring roll apiece and that curiously strong coffee that's served with a mini-drip coffee brewer and a dollop of condensed milk in the cup underneath.

We still have nothing to eat in the house.

* * *The work plate has been refilled. I am going to try to squeeze at least a half-day off sometime this weekend, though.

Cheers...