Note to Self

[rolanni]

Do not plan on getting Anything Useful done during the first three weeks of the fall semester. Just lay in a buncha bubblegum books and plan on coming home and turning into a vegetable. Do not plan on finishing the final draft of a novel during those three weeks, and do not agree to a deadline that falls within those three weeks.

In other news, has anyone here who has a vendor or prime account at PayPal been having trouble with their monthly financial report not truly reflecting sales? This is one of those things that makes me utterly crazy, because I can't figure out how it can be different from the raw data, and yet...

In the spirit of doing Anything Useful, I logged into PayPal last night to download the financials, only to find that the monthly financial report showed that this particular account had earned -- wait for it -- $25 in August, while the raw transaction-by-transaction showed an amount...considerably in excess of that. Before anyone asks, yes I did check the Obvious -- the date spread, the month -- as far as I can tell, I asked the same question of the monthly financial report and the transaction-by-transaction report -- and got two wildly different answers.

Worse, a glance back at the books reveals that the last two months' financial statements have been inaccurate, though to a degree lesser enough that I, in my apparently now habitual frenzied state, didn't notice.

Not a happy camper.

Thunderstorms and low 70/21 temps today. Maybe the temperature in my office will fall below 80/26.

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

PayPal fees? You factored those in, yes?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yep. The financial report has a separate line to account the fees. So it would look like this:

SALES: $xxx.xx
FEES: $xx.xx

The *fees* seem to be correct, but the sales figure is off by hundreds.

[katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

Which piece(s) of my steel would you like to borrow? My husband, heart of my heart, soul of my soul, just bought me a Celtic blade for my birthday and there's a Chinese Dragon spring-steel that I'd rather were left out of the mix, but other than that...

[readinggeek451]

Thought you might like to know that my local library has just gotten Duainfey in. Except it's not in the library right now, it's checked out to me. :)

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine emailed me this morning to tell me that her PayPal account had been hacked to the tune of some $600. You might want to check into that possibility.

And can I just say, I LOVE that icon.

Cheery thoughts...

[katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

No one every gets anything done at the beginning of the semester. That's an Unwritten Rule. Trust me. I am the Child of Educators.

Mother: "Kathryn? Why aren't you pursuing a teaching degree?"
Me: "Oh. ::evading question:: I could never remember anyone's name. It would just be pointless. I can see me now. You! Yes, you in the red shirt, two seats back in the second row! What is the answer to the question? And what would happen if I sent someone to the Principal's office?? I mean, really. Think about the permutations."

Now for cheery thoughts:
Pictures (http://www.flickr.com/photos/roblee/sets/773976/)

Re: Cheery thoughts...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Nice fox! Thank you.

Re: Cheery thoughts...

[katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

My friend saraphina_marie, who wrote A Year and A Day (http://www.amazon.com/Year-Day-Sara-M-Harvey/dp/1933725133/ref=pd_bbs_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221081237&sr=8-4), put it up in her lj and I had the feeling that you'd find it cheerful. ::grin:: Her own comment upon posting was, "Because we all need a little bit more *squee* in our lives, don't we?" I first met her at one of our local cons, Hypericon (http://hypericon.info/). We missed 4 due to circumstances beyond our control. It's the only place I've ever entered a costume contest. My ex called me up the first year because they were devoid of entrants at first. I change outfits at least three times a day at a con so I threw myself, my husband, and my red-headed step-child into PsiCorps outfits. We won. Of course, using my psi power on one of the Klingons judging might have had something to do with it... ::flicks invisible lint off of coat::