Lounges

It belted down rain for most of the night, about 40mm in Albion Park. This morning however there was only little splatters around the place. Given they had forecast huge wings and rain, so far our corner of the world has survived pretty much unscathed.

Work seemed to progressing nicely this morning, until Louise came in with a problem on the invoices for our cash trade customers. For some reason, this fails to print the delivery time, which caused some problems for one customer today. The cash trade account was not really set up for deliveries, and it is only because we are now pushing all our trade customers to set one up that it has appeared.
So Bill, in his haste, jumped straight into the 'set up' part of Attaché that he has never delved into, and after about 20 minutes was able to work out what fields to change to make this work. Straight forward, right? Nope. In doing so, I had inadvertently changed something else (I still don't see how) and I have now apparently stuffed up the format of the invoice, meaning it prints over itself, or prints over two pages. Annoying? Yes. After another 3 hours trying to fix it, I gave up, and hoped it won't prove too much of a problem before I can get back to it and try and work out what I've done. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

By the time this had eroded any semblance of joy from my day, Dennis then came forth and delivered the bad news about the statements that were now three weeks overdue - they would not be able to be emailed, and we had to print them all out and out them together with the invoice print out and put them all in envelopes and then mail them. By this afternoon. YAY!!! That's awesome. No pressure at all. In essence, Suds and Bill (with Robyn being off again today), drop everything you are doing, and get this task completed.
Well, in the long run, it probably helped that I couldn't think about my problems any longer, and got on with the mind numbing task of stuffing envelopes. Took until 4pm without a lunch break, but it got done, and Dennis began breathing a little easier, so perhaps he won't be so stressed tomorrow.

The kids each had a friend over today (Emily, Chloe-Jo and Lucas respectively) and had a great day by all accounts. The lounges also arrived, which made Helen very happy.

Helen made beef stroganoff for dinner with penne and fettucine, which was as good as always. She also had five girls over for a stitching night from 7.00pm, so I headed for the Metal Cavern, and listened to some music and wrote a couple of reviews. There's nothing like metal to get that aggression out of the body after a long unhappy work day. \m/