{"id":1754,"date":"2014-04-12T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2014-04-12T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T17:38:32","slug":"saturday-12-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/04\/12\/saturday-12-april-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 12 April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

11:00 –<\/span> Barbara is off to the supermarket and I’m doing laundry. Before we could do that we had to unpack and check in a shipment from one of our vendors in order to clear a path to the washer\/dryer and Barbara’s car. This shipment takes us back up to comfortable inventory levels on a lot of components: 200 more boxes of flat microscope slides, 45 dozen 6″ rulers, 30 dozen 100 mL graduated cylinders, 40 dozen test tube brushes, and similar numbers of several other items.
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Barbara took her mom out to dinner last night. She said Sankie is doing a bit better. Not a lot, but at least not any worse.
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13:36 –<\/span> You know those stories (many confirmed) about light bulbs that have been burning steadily for 100 years or more? Well, I have a similar situation with one of my calculators. I’ve printed the state and federal tax forms, but before I send them off I always double\/triple-check my math. For this final check, I’m using my HP-12C calculator, which I bought in 1983 when I started on my MBA from Wake Forest University’s Babcock School. I used it very heavily then and for some time thereafter, although in recent years it’s mostly sat in a desk drawer. But the odd thing is that the batteries I installed when I bought it 30 years ago are still in there, and still working fine. The original and only set.
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11:00 – Barbara is off to the supermarket and I’m doing laundry. Before we could do that we had to unpack and check in a shipment from one of our vendors in order to clear a path to the washer\/dryer and Barbara’s car. This shipment takes us back up to comfortable inventory levels on a lot of components: 200 more boxes of flat microscope slides, 45 dozen 6″ rulers, 30 dozen 100 mL graduated cylinders,<\/p>\n

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