Don't you just love days where you feel as though it may have been better to have never gotten out of bed? Today seems to be one of those days for me. Although it kinda makes sense when you discover that apparently it's St George's Day - Dragons Beware!
Anyhow, my tale of woe started as I was climbing into the shower (get your minds out of the gutters, people!). I ended up kneeing the door frame of the shower as I got in. So hard that I was more worried about if I'd broken the door frame than any damage I might've done to my knee. Fortunately, the door frame is a lot tougher than me, and I've come away with a crippling bruise on my knee. Yay. Well, my horoscope the other day said to expect a week full of cuts and scrapes...
Next, I discovered last week that my favourite knee-high boots (AKA The Boots) are disintegrating. So I thought that today would be the day I drag them into work so I can take them to a cobbler and get the verdict. Sadly, there wasn't anything he could do. It looks like I'll have to find replacements. Which, considering that they're at least 5 years old, is going to be virtually impossible, because they're no longer technically fashionable.
The Boots. Plus the crap underneath my bed. And pretty flare effect from the flash reflecting in the mirror.
Finally, to cap the day off (or so it seems), I managed to royally stuff up a data file. We have this rather tempramental software program that we use to produce financial reports for clients. It's made up of two parts, one dealing solely with assets and depreciation, the other with everything else, and they are linked together, so that any changes to the assets will feed through to the financials. Also, once you've rolled a data file over to a new year, you can't access the reports for the previous year unless to restore to a backup, usually done to a floppy disk (yes, we still use them at our work!). There, that's the background stuff. Now for the rest.
I was given a job to compile, which involved printing off financials, asset depreciation and tax return (which is in a completely different (and user-friendly) program). I knew I was required to do the 2005 stuff (this client is a little behind in their paperwork). I also noted from what was (or more aptly, wasn't) on file that the 2004 documents hadn't been printed off. So I thought I'd do the right thing and print them off too, requiring me to back up the 2005 data and restore back to 2004. So I grabbed a spare floppy disk, backed up 2005, changed disks, restored 2004 and printed everything off. Changed disks again to restore back to 2005...and waited for the program to restore...and waited...eventually, it spat out an error message.
I went cold.
I tried several times to restore it from the disk using different techniques. I even tried copying the contents of the disk to another location, and it wouldn't even do that.
Eventually, I restored the file from the Friday night backup of the work server (fortunately one of the joys of being IT administrator at work, I didn't have to wait for someone else to do it for me!). Opened up the file. Financial info was fine. Checked the asset register. Missing a whole pile of assets that were added in the 2005 year. Checked the financial info again. All the depreciation was correct as if all the assets were present and accounted for. Ensue sick feeling, and searching for a brick wall to pound my head against. Why? Because to just re-enter the assets in would result in doubling up in depreciation in the financials (don't ask me - that's just how this annoying program works). Can't easily adjust the depreciation in the financials, either. And of course, because that's the 2005 stuff printed, the Boss wants it rolled over so that the 2006 stuff can be done. *sigh*
Thank goodness I'm only office admin, so I can leave the job to an accountant.
However, I really do feel as though I could do with less days like that. And I'm sure everyone doesn't really want to be reading about me having days like that, either.
1 comment:
Woohoo! Smerk legs!
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