Fun day

Got to sleep in a bit today, went down to the Bakery where things were hopping. By 11AM we had had more sales than we were doing for an entire day last week. Sundays are usually down a bit but today was better sales than any other weekend day! The new cash register is awesome -- Sharp was very smart in adding a USB port. Programming a complex register is a horrible experience as there are no alpha keys on the register so entering in department names involves a complex and non-intuitive set of keystrokes. The downside to this is that you really only set the thing up once so there is no pressure on the manufacturer to make the process easy. Sharp has a nice utility that you download to your PC and you can program everything through a set of plain english drop-down menus. Awesome! Ran into town to get some stuff including Christmas lights for the bakery building. It's in a nice small two-story house and it responds to "cuteness" very well. Got a pot of beef stew in the pressure cooker -- dinner in another 30 minutes or so. Back to the 7AM schedule tomorrow. And two meetings on Tuesday -- that plus payroll for the store and for the bakery. This seems like work to me -- and I am loving every bit of it...