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Expediency wins...
Jan. 5th, 2007 11:17 pmMy search for a way to create and track invoices came to a screeching halt today when one of my clients called wondering why I had resent an invoice from last year. I looked at the invoice I had printed out, and it looked as up-to-date as a female Democrat in the Speaker's chair. A little snooping in my outbox revealed a flaw in my invoicing procedure.
First, to avoid overwriting an old invoice, I take an old invoice and save it with a new name. Then I make the appropriate changes. I even print out a copy of the invoice to have a hard copy on hand. So far so good.
If I don't save the changes before sending off the invoice, however, the client will get an old invoice with a new name.
So, on the way back from grocery shopping this afternoon, we stopped at Fry's and I went in to see if they had a software package on sale for $50 or less that would take care of creating and tracking invoices (I specifically didn't want an accounting package, with all of the concomitant bells and whistles that have slowed me to a standstill in the past).
There was such a product (Invoice Manager, published by Intuit, on sale for $39.95) and I plan on installing it tomorrow.
In other news, I got up at 7:30 am, and my first reaction was to reach over and pick up my iPod, which was not the source of the alarm (my BlackBerry is). That made for an interesting few seconds until I actually woke up, after which I made coffee and did the whole morning ablutions thing, followed by a walk around the neighborhood with Galina, by which point it was starting to get close to 10 am.
I sat down to my unfinished translation and immediately was stymied by the first sentence, for a while. Then things became easier and eventually, I managed to send in a proofread, finished job at nearly 1 pm my time. Then I did the short item due for Monday, as it was... well... short.
Our neighbor, Vadim, stopped by after work and had a bowl of miso soup and one of Galina's Russian hamburgers (котлеты), which combine ground beef, sautéd onion, garlic, salt, pepper, and rolled in bread crumbs before applying heat. Afterward, I listened to him talk (and the man can talk). It turns out he had planned on accompanying his wife on a trip to Israel starting yesterday, but a job he had lined up to start later in the month actually asked him to start this past Tuesday, on the second. Feeling that it would be somewhat outré to start work on Tuesday and then split for a two week vacation on Friday, Vadim told his wife to go on without him.
As you might imagine, Vadim is something of a freelancer, someone who knows his way around an engineering plant, with a lot of startup experience. Though probably an oversimplification of what I understand to be his lifestyle, I believe he works until a job ends, and then travels until the money very nearly runs out. An interesting guy.
In going through my CDs in Pagosa, I was disappointed to find that most of the really good stuff was nowhere to be found, and for a good reason: it's been down here, in a box that I can't unpack because there really is no place to store/display the jewel boxes. That problem might get solved this weeked, too.
Wow! Is it really after 11 pm? I should probably shut everything down and go hit the sack. I hope to get a lot of stuff done this weekend, including some eBaying.
Cheers...
First, to avoid overwriting an old invoice, I take an old invoice and save it with a new name. Then I make the appropriate changes. I even print out a copy of the invoice to have a hard copy on hand. So far so good.
If I don't save the changes before sending off the invoice, however, the client will get an old invoice with a new name.
So, on the way back from grocery shopping this afternoon, we stopped at Fry's and I went in to see if they had a software package on sale for $50 or less that would take care of creating and tracking invoices (I specifically didn't want an accounting package, with all of the concomitant bells and whistles that have slowed me to a standstill in the past).
There was such a product (Invoice Manager, published by Intuit, on sale for $39.95) and I plan on installing it tomorrow.
In other news, I got up at 7:30 am, and my first reaction was to reach over and pick up my iPod, which was not the source of the alarm (my BlackBerry is). That made for an interesting few seconds until I actually woke up, after which I made coffee and did the whole morning ablutions thing, followed by a walk around the neighborhood with Galina, by which point it was starting to get close to 10 am.
I sat down to my unfinished translation and immediately was stymied by the first sentence, for a while. Then things became easier and eventually, I managed to send in a proofread, finished job at nearly 1 pm my time. Then I did the short item due for Monday, as it was... well... short.
Our neighbor, Vadim, stopped by after work and had a bowl of miso soup and one of Galina's Russian hamburgers (котлеты), which combine ground beef, sautéd onion, garlic, salt, pepper, and rolled in bread crumbs before applying heat. Afterward, I listened to him talk (and the man can talk). It turns out he had planned on accompanying his wife on a trip to Israel starting yesterday, but a job he had lined up to start later in the month actually asked him to start this past Tuesday, on the second. Feeling that it would be somewhat outré to start work on Tuesday and then split for a two week vacation on Friday, Vadim told his wife to go on without him.
As you might imagine, Vadim is something of a freelancer, someone who knows his way around an engineering plant, with a lot of startup experience. Though probably an oversimplification of what I understand to be his lifestyle, I believe he works until a job ends, and then travels until the money very nearly runs out. An interesting guy.
In going through my CDs in Pagosa, I was disappointed to find that most of the really good stuff was nowhere to be found, and for a good reason: it's been down here, in a box that I can't unpack because there really is no place to store/display the jewel boxes. That problem might get solved this weeked, too.
Wow! Is it really after 11 pm? I should probably shut everything down and go hit the sack. I hope to get a lot of stuff done this weekend, including some eBaying.
Cheers...
