One of the teachers at the store teaches accordion. And his one accordion student decided to get in some practice time whilst waiting for the instructor. Argghhh. What awful noise. It will probably be a bit easier once this guy knows a scale or two. Sold a tenor sax today - well that is I special ordered one and will get the money next week once it's delivered. But that's a big ticket sale.

And every passing day before my show merchandise arrives means it's all the more likely to land all on the same day. Sigh... Could've used it nicely spread over three or four days. I'm almost dreading facing a mountain of boxes tomorrow. But wait... it could be worse. It could be Monday when a bunch of other stuff is scheduled to get here. Either way I'm in trouble.

Plugged all the numbers I've got so far this month into Excel finally to get a handle on where I'm at (besides envelope calculations). Precisely middlin' - not great, not bad. Must...not...resort...to...electronic...record...storage... bad idea. Recall I was once an archivist for computer records. In '95, records going back to '71. Ouch. We had to buy special machines just to read the old tapes; then write the software to read in some special format and convert it to some modern language. Ususally one or both backup tapes turned up unreadable. Even modern writable CD's have pretty high failure rates. And all your records will be in an incompatible format two years from now. A paper ledger is just fine thank you.