First the good news. For those of you who follow this, I’ve now been given the all clear after my hernia op. The downside is that I cannot get out of doing the mowing and the hoovering any more. Still…

Second. More good news. Back into the networking scene after around an eight week layoff. Surprisingly like riding a bike – got the idea back and running without any difficulty, not even the need to start back with stabilisers!

Mind you, the side effect of the first meet was to completely knacker me the day after. And my surgeon intimated that he thought there should be no continuing effects of the anaesthetic now so I can’t blame that going forward. Told Lorraine the alternative reasoning is that forty years of overdoing it have FINALLY caught up with me and the operation and its aftermath were merely useful scapegoats…

My to-do list seems to be becoming more manageable and I am not quite sure why. I’d like to believe it’s that all the changes to my work style are finally paying off but the worry is that the work is as chaotic as ever and I’m just having a quiet patch. Hmm.

One completely stupid outbreak (was going to say cock-up but I can at least say the software didn’t give me any clues). Felt really smug with myself having set up the mapping for the information in their cloud-based accounting system (Xero if you want to know but other software providers are available) to import automatically to the statutory accounts software. Felt only slightly less smug when I realised a few codes were not mapped the same as the prior year (which was done the old-fashioned manual way) until I chatted to one of the support team and discovered that, once the mapping has been done, you can’t alter the !@!@ thing. Bugger.

Not what I wanted to find out. The only way round it is to redo the mapping from scratch having removed the previous attempt. Sound of hissing as ego rapidly deflates. You’d think that small fact would be scrawled prominently across the manual but – no – not as far as I’ve been able to ascertain. Sigh.

So yesterday it was a case of print out the prior year trial balance and manually write down the mapped codes they go to. And this afternoon’s task will be to input the whole damned thing again. The positive I take away from this is that I won’t have to do it in subsequent years (unless the system alters yet again).

Thought to self. I’m just looking at another similar case with an added complication. Charity with multiple funds to keep segregated. Wonder if I can import that by fund (which would save having to re-input 500  lines of data which would be very useful)? Do have to hope that (if it does) I don’t screw that one up. Inputting twice would not be exciting…

A seriously interesting meeting with my life coach Becki again this morning. I’ve bigged her up before and I’ll do it again. As anyone who has met me will probably realise – I’m a bit extrovert (alongside slightly barking) but I’ve always considered myself to be an introvert.

Which I’m probably not.

So why do I think I am (was)?

Homework until our next meeting methinks (actually shethinks, not that that is a real word, but that’s what I’ve been told to consider, so consider I will do).

I think that’s enough mind poo for this week. Nose back to the grindstone or answer a few emails? Choices, choices. What am I to do…