Choices - We All Face Them Every Day! Post Number 4999

Yesterday was an intensive day. It actually turned out to be lucky that Aearwen had other things going on yesterday and couldn't call for our weekly chat. I was neck deep in inventory sheets, and as it was, ended up working on those until 8:58 pm, leaving me putting everything away and running quickly off to sleep. What a day! It was crazy busy, but I did get a lot accomplished. 

Yesterday was a bit of a crazy-busy day, but a successful 
one by the end of it all. My only breaks were cooking 
in the morning and grabbing another cup of tea in the 
afternoon (which I didn't even have time to drink). Of 
course I also did my three loads of laundry, but I pulled 
the final load out of the dryer at 7:45 pm. 

I've been working on a series of check-sheets for the shop. We have boxes of beads on special discount on our counter top - almost all in the area of the store that I am in. We do have "walking" inventory from those boxes, and Chickie catches a great deal of them, but I wanted an easier way to do a quick and accurate inventory of the boxes, so I developed a series of "Check Sheets", one group for each type of bead. I was trying to make final copies of the sheets for our use, but there was (and still is) a lot of double-checking and formatting that needed to happen. 

I wanted to plug in a photo of the inventory 
sheet I developed for the shop, but I don't 
really have the time to make it happen and 
still get to the gym on time. So, you'll have 
to take my word for it - it's working well, 
but combining the data files with the form is 
a bit tricky. It's working, though. and I 
should be able to say "This is it!" by the end 
of the week. 

After working on these sheets for hours yesterday, I finally have most of them finalized and printed. There are still one or two that need a bit more work, but it's totally getting to something that will be very helpful for all of us. Of course, my laptop doesn't talk to the printer that I have here at home, so it's convoluted - rather like most things in life. I store the documents in a Dropbox folder, open them on my desktop computer for printing, but any changes that I make, are done on the laptop because I need these available and up-to-date when I'm at the shop. 

Once upon a time, computers were supposed to make our 
lives easier. In some ways they do - without computers, I 
wouldn't have met all of you and my life would be poorer. 
But, when computers won't talk to each other, it's a total 
PITA. That's what I'm dealing with now, and it's very 
frustrating. 

Isn't that what life is all about, though? We stutter our way through it. We see a way through a current problem and rush through that portal before it closes, only to find ourselves in a room of closed doorways and no way to tell which door is the correct one to continue on our way. Do we open the correct door? I'm sure that some of us do, only to find ourselves in a similar setup, just a new room - a new problem, a new confrontation, a new stumble in our road. There's nothing else to do but pick ourselves up, choose another door, pass through the entryway (which is always one-way only, with no clue what will be waiting on the other side), and then, we deal. We deal with that unknown, only to be faced with the next one. 

Each of us faces many choices every day - something as 
simple as what to eat for breakfast, or as complicated as 
whether you should quit your current job and get a 
different one. Some choices can be life-changing, others 
are mere ripples on our pond of life. Which choices will 
you face today? If you face them with kindness, love 
and compassion, you'll make the right choices. 

So, on this day of choices, I hope you make the right ones. When you pet asks for affection (or a treat), give in, especially for the affection part. When your companion complains about something, open your ears and listen. You might not be able to change anything else, but a listening and compassionate ear might be just what's needed. When everything around you is going to hell in a handbasket, remember that tomorrow is another day of hope. Let's not lose sight of that beacon light - the beacons have been lighted, now it's up to others to provide the response. Have an excellent Thursday, I'm off to the pool, and then my inventory sheets and my laptop are heading to the shop for an almost-final test of the new inventory Check Sheets. I'll be back tomorrow for my 5000th post, but number 4999 was a lot to get off my brain as it was. Slava Ukraini and חיים למען ישראל.