Our practitioner came down with a touch of food poisoning and didn't feel like sticking needles into people while she was potentially contagious. Where's the fun in that?
Worked at the store most of the day -- we have been having a lot of trouble with bad checks so I installed a new Check imaging system that will capture the MICR number and then directly deduct the funds from the account. No funds? No transaction. There is also a level of insurance that if the check is fraudulent or the funds really were not available, we are covered and they process the debt directly with the customer.
This is an extra hassle but since January, we have had close to $2K in fraudulent checks and in three cases, these were from three regular long-time customers who were planning to move away, did not tell us, wrote a string of large checks and they all bounced. Of course, since these were long term customers, we never bothered getting Drivers Licenses or anything. A lot of running the store is community service -- if we wanted to make money, I would still be at Microsoft. It annoys the hell out of me to be willfully taken advantage of like that -- we had been feeding these families for several years...
Also started processing the legal crap from my Dad's death -- contacting the investment companies, Social Security, his University Pension, etc. The funeral home didn't get my copies of the Death Certificate until a few days ago and I didn't get into town until yesterday.
Looking forward to this weekend though: NWBA SPRING CONFERENCE 2010
