Operation: Serial Number
Buying gear is fun. Accurate record-keeping is not so fun. However, as a concession to the persistent nagging of the IRS, Insurance Adjusters, Mom, and Deebo, I have to decided, temporarily at least, to bite the bullet and be a Responsible Adult.
To that end, I have initiated Operation: Serial Number.
Step 1- "Decide How To Write All This Shit Down"
My initial idea was to create a Simple Text document and just start typing. But then I started thinking, "Wouldn't it be cool if there was a way that the information could be organized by Manufacturer, and maybe have separate columns for Replacement Cost and Serial Number, and OOH, include pictures of my sweet gear... you know, like some sort of spreadbase or datasheet or something?"
Then the idea lightbulb above my head flared into brilliant incandescence-
"I bet they have that stuff for computers now! Quick, to the Certamobile!"
(Insert grainy stock footage of the Passat roaring out of my Underground Bunker in the foothills of Burbank accompanied by the "Theme From 'Shaft'")
A quick trip to Comp USA later, I'm installing Appleworks 6.2 and feeling like a multi-tasking, synergistic efficiency machine. I open it up, choose "New Spreadsheet Document," and encounter this-
What the fuck is this?
There are times like this when never having had a real job can be a fucking detriment. My dad, bless him, even tried to get me interested in these kinds of things back in the day on his Radio Shack TRS 80. But did I listen? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I was watching professional wrestling and eating Golden Grahams out the box.
(Q: What're you gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on YOU?
A: Not create a spreadsheet.)
Instead, I closed the White Boxes of Capitalism and tried "New Database Document." BINGO! Pretty soon I was "Defining Fields" and adjusting "Layouts" to my heart's content. Yeah. Who's hot?
Step 2- "Write All This Shit Down"
OK, so step 2 is boring and self-explanatory.
I hope to be done with Operation: Serial Number soon so I can go back to using some REAL business software-
To that end, I have initiated Operation: Serial Number.
Step 1- "Decide How To Write All This Shit Down"
My initial idea was to create a Simple Text document and just start typing. But then I started thinking, "Wouldn't it be cool if there was a way that the information could be organized by Manufacturer, and maybe have separate columns for Replacement Cost and Serial Number, and OOH, include pictures of my sweet gear... you know, like some sort of spreadbase or datasheet or something?"
Then the idea lightbulb above my head flared into brilliant incandescence-
"I bet they have that stuff for computers now! Quick, to the Certamobile!"
(Insert grainy stock footage of the Passat roaring out of my Underground Bunker in the foothills of Burbank accompanied by the "Theme From 'Shaft'")
A quick trip to Comp USA later, I'm installing Appleworks 6.2 and feeling like a multi-tasking, synergistic efficiency machine. I open it up, choose "New Spreadsheet Document," and encounter this-
What the fuck is this?
There are times like this when never having had a real job can be a fucking detriment. My dad, bless him, even tried to get me interested in these kinds of things back in the day on his Radio Shack TRS 80. But did I listen? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I was watching professional wrestling and eating Golden Grahams out the box.
(Q: What're you gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on YOU?
A: Not create a spreadsheet.)
Instead, I closed the White Boxes of Capitalism and tried "New Database Document." BINGO! Pretty soon I was "Defining Fields" and adjusting "Layouts" to my heart's content. Yeah. Who's hot?
Step 2- "Write All This Shit Down"
OK, so step 2 is boring and self-explanatory.
I hope to be done with Operation: Serial Number soon so I can go back to using some REAL business software-
posted by MFDC at 1:58 PM
1 Comments:
You said you'd get a "good" blog out of it. This was fucking excellent! I thought we had an agreement about the writing thing.
That's OK, somebody needed to fucking up the ante in our miserably sparse blogosphere.
Fave: But did I listen? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I was watching professional wrestling and eating Golden Grahams out the box.
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I SWEAR TO GOD. I'm doing a screenshot right now. If I can figger it out.
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