Some time ago, I mentioned that a piece of music had so much inside the words, that it was more than ...
The piece by Laurie Anderson was to me, a true definition of why and how people view art, and to be honest, I'm not really into that sort of thing, although I can stare at a Canaletto for ages, or hear some perfect music by Vaughan Williams or Butterworth until I'm a dribbling wreck!
But the other night, I was working on a quandary which was a simple miscaculation in the Scrobs Spreadsheet of The Turrets Accounts...
These accounts go back over ten years, and I built the programme for the simple reason, that I always want to know where our dosh is at any particular time, and even after 7,500 lines of numbers, it still works!
But I did a rash thing.
I'd found a discrepancy of just over 80 quid between income and outgoings, and it was driving me mad! So I set in motion all sorts of checks and balances, which entailed trawling through each month since 2013. As the mouse finger was getting a bit tired, I started a downward scroll using my left hand, across the computer keys.
This all went well until absolute hell let loose, and the figures started dancing around all over the place, and were unstoppable! The dreaded word of 'Ref' appeared on 90% of everything, and I realised that the cuff of my jersey had caught up on the Ctrl key, and with some other key-strokes, the whole programme began to self destruct - including all my thousands of accounting lines!
Luckily, a few glasses of red had relaxed the frame more than somewhat, so I had to think more logically. It wasn't easy to find the antidote to the issue, but I kept remembering the words, 'And the voice said', from Laurie Anderson's piece above...
I just managed to restore a previous copy of the accounts, even though persevering with Chrome took several minutes, almost enough time to open another bottle before I completed the task of getting back to the present day's input.
The voice said - 'Leave it Scrobs, you'll muck it up again in your relaxed state, so LEAVE IT'!
And she was right!
A few years ago I gave up keeping track of income and outgoings on the spreadsheet I'd been using for years. We're creatures of habit now, and apart from running an eye over monthly statements I don't bother. We spend less as we get older anyway... apart from the new lawn strimmer I just bought... and the astronomical telescope I quite fancy...
ReplyDeleteI just feel that as it's money we've earned, I should at least know where it goes...
ReplyDeleteYou must get the telescope - it's a necessity!