I really kind of am enjoying having no Internet access at home. I get home and go to sleep earlier than usual, I can get up at 9a instead of attempting 8a and hitting snooze, and then I don't have to rush out of the house late late late, but instead stroll out calmly in plenty of time to get breakfast on the way to work.

Maybe I'll never get it back! Nah, that would make me crazy, particularly on the weekend, when my head would explode, and my apartment is messy enough, frankly.

So, I debuted my pink hair at work on Monday to very little surprise. The Evil Overlord mostly exclaimed not about the fact that my hair was pink, but that my shirt was green and clashed with my pink hair.

Clearly, I can do nothing anymore that will surprise the people that I work with everyday. This does not particularly bother me, as I don't dye my hair so that people will gasp, but honestly, their eyes aren't supposed to slide right off as though I had dyed it brown! Actually, that would surprise them.

So, yesterday we had a meeting about the system upgrade and how terrible and awful and useless and dreadful it will be.

Of course, the guy going over the upgrade with us was not aware that it would be terrible and awful and useless and dreadful, he was under the misapprehension that it would be wonderful and glorious and useful and great. We, particularly me, set him straight.

You see, a few years ago, for a couple of months, we did this thing called three way matching, which is a way of entering invoices into the system where instead of just entering it and going on our merry way, we matching it with the receipt in the system that is entered when the item arrives, then match it with the PO in the system. We stopped doing it because it is so slow and time-consuming and horrid, but now they want to bring it back again.

Here's how it goes: currently, to enter an invoice you pull up the voucher screen, get a new voucher number, write it on the invoice, type in the invoice number, type in the vendor name, change the posting code if necessary, type in the invoice date, enter and code the item amount, enter and code the tax and shipping amount. Takes about 20-30 seconds.

Here's how it will go: you take an invoice, go into the matching screen, type in the vendor name, type in the invoice number, type in the invoice date, pull up all of the receipts that are associated with that vendor, click off the right ones, type in the prices individually for every single solitary line item, type in the tax, type in the shipping, post the match, go into the voucher screen, get the voucher number, write it on the invoice, change the posting codes and post the voucher. O yeah, and every time you want to post a match, you have to click a little box, so if you want to post 100 matches, that's 100 clicks.

And then you hang yourself in the bathroom.

Instead of taking 20-30 seconds, it will take about 2-3 minutes per invoice. And this is all contingent on the fact that no mistakes were made in entering the PO, that it was entered for the right amount and the right number of items and the right vendor. Which, of course, never happens.

This will be a disaster of Biblical proportions. I have started to call it the Rain of Frogs.

Erm updated! No, really, she did, I swear! Twice! Once about going to see an author read, and once about her house smelling like poo. I miss Erm.

Today's horoscope:
Issues of power, authority and control surface with others (love versus dominance). Sidestep power struggles; go for teamwork.

One year ago today:
So, yesterday I decided to go see Gladiator again, because I just couldn't let another day go by without seeing Russell Crowe again, all salty goodness in his little blue frock.

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