What can I say in five minutes...

...because that's when I close the doors, spend about 30 minutes "closing" the cash registers, etc. and then get the heck out of Dodge.

It's been a crazy day, starting from when a fellow came in with 26 packages to ship via UPS. Good for the store's bottom line (even though I gave him a 10% discount), but it made moving around in the back of the store pretty claustrophobic for the rest of the day.

Then people started to stream in as if there were no tomorrow. (Actually, that can't be the case, because if there were no tomorrow, they wouldn't be sending packages that, at best, will be delivered after tomorrow.) But you get the picture.

At a little after noon, I went to the bank and got $100 of change (singles, etc.). By 3:00 pm it was all gone, and I went to the bank to get $200 of change. Most of it, I think, remains for duty on Thursday.

I'm out looking for two, cheap reasonably speedy (~300 MHz or so) computers for the store, so I think I know what I'm going to do for part of tomorrow. I'm also looking for a computer that will serve as the store's Linux server... there are too many things going on, resulting in too many disorganized notes being written.

I've tried organizing such notes in notebooks, but that doesn't work too well... you end up with several notebooks and the information is illegible half the time. I don't know if "computerizing" the system will do any good; computers are generally good at making things go faster. If you consistently do nothing but make mistakes by hand, a computer will simply mechanize the process and create true chaos.

Okay... five minutes are up. Later (maybe).

Cheers...