It's all good so far

Just warming up the brain cells and getting re-engaged in the day to day. The holiday was a nice break such as it was.

Since the business runs 24/7/365, there are always incidents and issues that occur without respect to calendar or clock and must get handled. However, I was able to take some time away from the office and the home office.

With the free time we did some home organization. I also made some additional squirrel proofing measures which has caused some consternation among the population of tree rats that view my attic as theirs. We have one squirrel that keeps looking in the sliding glass doors and thinking that the den would be a nice place to spend the winter now that the attic is closed.

They have also tried getting back into the attic through the garage. They definitely don’t like getting locked in the garage.

Last night I went to move my car in. I heard something rattling around the work bench. I yelled get out, which definitely put the tree rat in fight and flight mode. I watched him jump off the work bench, bounce off the top of the wife’s car and then sail right at me where he used my head as a launch pad out of the garage. I still have a vivid image of him sailing at me. We will maintain better discipline about keeping the garage door closed.

It is time to sight in the pellet pistol and see if I can convince these rodents to move elsewhere. I wonder if hanging a few pelts on the side of the house would influence them to stay at the neighbor’s house.

Time to take a break from the accounting for a moment. I still have some tasks to get done today. I have already done some calendar planning, and have tomorrow’s tasks lined out to get the very short work week started.

I do have to get a document together with all my access information which is currently scattered over a couple of notebooks. I have not gotten around to using one password or some other keeper software but am open to recommendations.

All part of the better organized resolution.

Last day of 2013 and getting some thoughts together before I go back to work on the family book keeping.

I spent some quality time the last two days on data entry, basically dealing with one particular payee – rebuilding a template to cover two months of data. Had the cache drop twice – losing the work most of the way into the edit. We will see if I draw a response from their tech support after I tweeted the problem and my solution that involves programmers losing body parts.

Do I recycle my resolutions from last year?  More writing, more exercise, better attention to diet.in spite of the wine hobby.

Well I have not arrived at the point that I want to be at, so we will continue with these resolutions. I will also reduce the time in front of the tube and do a little more reading.

Sandra and I will also do more planning on the next stage of life. We like the M.F.K. Fisher’s concept of The Last House. We have been in the current location for 20 years. The next move will be the last move. We have an idea where, and are deciding what the last house will look like. I don’t know if we will find it or if we will have to build it. I do know that it will be an interesting journey.

Checking in at Dunbar Oil & Gas – Stafford Office. I am surprised at how long it takes to get the morning underway. The holiday sleep in lasted until 6;45 this morning. Since then we have:

1. Contacted the pest control folks and set an appointment to deal with the unwanted guests that seem to like the free dog food next door but prefer our attic for their overnight accommodations.

2. Confirmed flight, hotel, and other travel arrangements for college kids so they can fly to El Paso, meet family, pick up car, learn to drive a standard, and start the journey home.

3. Noticed that I have multiple backups on backup drive and was running out of room. Needed to delete old back up copies. Crossing my fingers and hoping that between the data drive(s) that are in a raid array, the external drive, and dropbox that I have everything covered.

4. Finally have the accounting open and am looking at the run stub that shows 8 months of well data that has been adjusted. I don’t know what happened in 2013 that has caused the accounting departments for several purchasers to go nuts and try to adjust years of severance taxes or pricing on a single run stub. Some of these are now multiple pages in length.

Oh well some one has to get the data into the family accounting software.

At least the vacuum cleaner /dog serenade has quit and I can now start catching up on the book work and my podcast listening.