I won't be here at 2pm

Famous last words!

I had NO intentions of going into work again as I am really enjoying how much calmer and nicer it is this year with the business being gone. I am actually seeing December and I like it. But when my Dad came over at 9am to help me put the boy dogs ear drops in (poor sod has an absolute raging ear infection) he kindly gave me 4 parcels to send for him. He has been selling some Bronica (sp?) camera equipment on ebay that he no longer uses and has made £700 - he is thrilled as this means he can afford the specialist £860 printer that he wants.

So, I dispatched Charlie upstairs to do his work (GP secondary level) all was fine and he is very excited about doing the Geography field study (he's had the Geography for a few months now) and I whizzed through the accounts and banking and we left around 10.35 and were just beaten by Lisa arriving early.

Charlie was in the back room finishing off his work, Dad's parcels packed, my Secret Santa present wrapped and sent, stock control done, orders printed off and Courier booked and then whilst Lisa packed I started to work on the fix for the previously mentioned SQL database error.

I was in the middle of fixing it when I noticed it was now 12.00 so sent Charlie to the cafe to get lunch and breezily explained to Lisa that as I wouldn't still be here at 2pm could she please print off the rest of the orders and mark as shipped as its settlement day.

At 1.50pm she laughed out loud and said "of course you won't still be here at 2pm when the Courier comes will you" I resisted the urge to throw a box at her ;)

SQL problem fixed and then at 1.30pm Packing Partner broke - I resisted the urge to scream. So downloaded fix for that and then went back to trying to install the evaluation of the stock control system now that the SQL was fixed - it threw up a new problem. I am awaiting their tech supports help now.

I sent Lisa home at 2pm and then we left around 2.30 as just before I went to leave I noticed Mr Bubbles needed replenishing so parcels could be packed tomorrow.

Dinosaur model out on the road had extra bits to his torso today so that was exciting and we found out they are being filmed for a documentary which is why no-one can go down one particular corridor between 7pm-7am at the moment.

Home and flopped. Charlie has K'Nex'd more, Meccano'd and lamented that his thesaurus and dictionary are lacking so he couldn't finish his English GP as the thesaurus didn't have the word in that he needed to look up. Must rectify that with trip to bookshop.