A Sunday at Month End

Today started out rather quiet with a coffee outside and a view of the volcanoes on a cool cloudy Sunday morning. There was of course also the meeting to be had with Michael (EIA consultant) today as he promised on Friday.

Got to work on putting together some drawings for Sarah of the Safari Tents as they related to the meeting with Rob at East Africa Canvas. This turned out to be more of a little chore as I had to use the drawing taskbars in MSWord but it worked out ok. I added to this notes on the discussions we had and reasoning behind some of the decisions we made. In retrospect, and working my way through the notes, this meeting was definitely worth it - even if I went to Nairobi just for that. Anyway, got this all sent through to Sarah.

This was followed by converting the HTML document on the kitchen quote I had received from New World, Nairobi. This document eventually ended up as an MSExcel document and got sent through to Sarah as well.

Then, the BIG month end chore, accounts! Luckily my own accounts weren't that many and I got them sorted pretty quickly. Then it was Andy's accounts' turn - putting in all the data. The good thing is its all noted very well and clearly. All followed by the EA (Rwanda) invoice and 'Voila!' - done. Late afternoon (approx 17:00) but fine - always a relief when thats all done. Just sending it all through to Sarah now

As if on cue - at 18:20 the obligatory and normal power cut which, if 'normal', will last till 9 or 10pm. This is my cue as well to sit down and do some reading and get away from the pc for awhile.

Long indoors day today but actually very productive. Also managed to do a fair amount of filing too.

Oh yes, somebody never turned up as promised and his phone has been off all day too. Good thing I didn't rely too much on that and carried on with the loads of other stuff I have to do.

Between all this, had an amazing little black and white jumping spider on the wall. Managed to get some digital pics and video. I've never seen one of these - white fangs/pedipalps with black tips and then a white stripe over each of the body parts. I will be definitely be looking out for them again to try and get a good close-up pic with the SLR.