A near miss

Whew! I had a near disaster yesterday! No, nothing to do with the picture above. I just thought I’d throw that in because I haven’t used any pictures lately. This horror story has to do with the computer, printer and my point of sale software. I’m using a DOS program by Dale Harris. It’s free and does a great job. I worked days on end putting in the over 1500 items with their stock number, brief description and price. Lena came a few mornings and called them out to me. Erin helped a day or two, but mostly I went around, wrote them on a piece of paper then typed them in. One……at……a……..time.

I hadn’t hooked up the printer, not having the correct cable. Wal-Mart, our only local source for that kind of thing, didn’t have the exact cable I needed, but had one that would work. How was I to know it wouldn’t work with the software? Oh, it said so in the software set up, but I don’t understand technical stuff like that. I got it hooked up, tried to print and the program froze. I could not get back in. Scared me to death. I didn’t know what to do. I worked with it all afternoon and finally resigned myself to starting over from the beginning. Groan. But this story does have a happy ending.

When I got home I looked on the software’s site and saw there was a new version, so I downloaded it, took off back to the shop, uploaded it and was somehow able to get into the program. Oh, man! I can’t tell you how relieved I was! I was even able to configure the printer so I can print receipts now. Yeah!

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I’m liking having a shop. It’s never been so fun to sell things. Before the only reason I sold anything was so I could buy more. That’s still the driving force, but there’s something about people coming into your blood, sweat and tears shop, loving it and the things in it and taking something home. I never liked selling at the flea market. You’d think the feeling would be similar, but it’s not. This is special. Now I need to figure out what my hours and days will be. The one weekend a month has gone bye-bye. I’ll still do that, but want to open weekdays, too. I still won’t give up my other weekends. Can’t give them up or I’d never have any new merchandise. At the same time I don’t want to be there all day every single day of the week. I’m over thinking this, though. I just need to let it evolve on it’s own. I’ll know what to do when it’s time to do it.

I won’t be open tomorrow or Tuesday the 8th. Friend and daughter obligations. Tomorrow’s thing begins early and I’m getting sleepy, so I’d better hit the sack. Oh, I did see that there are some sales tomorrow I can attend. I’m excited about that since Saturday will be pretty limited. More about that later.

Wanda

Published on: June 18, 2008

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