What am I doing?
Well I’m taking a break.
You see I just ate a frog. Not literally. Let me explain.
The Federal Government has decided to change the reporting requirements for lobster dealers. I used to be able to generate a report of our lobster landings from our accounting software. The amount of data and pieces of information the govt asks for IMO is fucking rediculous and the system for reporting it absolutely crazy redundant and time consuming. I used to be able to customize a report from my accounting software print it out and fax it in but now I need to break all that data down and enter the data bit by bit manually. What used to take me a short while now takes me hours and hours and in the summer when we have 10 times the landings, that amount of work will multiply by the same amount.
To say I’m not happy is an understatement. Thankfully a nice guy from the reporting department came by to help me make sense of it all and for that I am truly grateful but it doesn’t lessen the fact that this software that is used for the reports is absolute fucking horseshit.
Anyway I’ve been having a pile of these reports hanging over my head all month long and it’s been nagging at me. This morning good egg Ed Collard was down the dock and when I kept reiterating my displeasure with having to get these reports done Ed told me a great story.
He sid he read a motivational book which said this- Imagine that you’re facing a day where you have to eat a frog. Best thing to do is to get right to it and eat that godamn frog. Then for the rest of the day once you eat the frog the worst part is behind you. Chances are it won’t get worse than that.
So that’s what I’ve been doing all morning. Banging out a weeks worth of government reports or as I’ll call it from here on out- Eating the frog.
Not Me-
Good Morning Gloucester 
Good luck! I hate taxes and stupid wasteful paperwork. Ugh! Kick it’s ass!
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It is like insurance companies and all the paperwork they want.. we should all revolt.. doing medical billig is not too bad calling the insurance companies for payment, is eating a frog Thanks for the posting
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mangia Joey! Mangia!
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I disagree with Ed. If I ate a frog first thing I would spend the rest of the day puking….
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Maybe with hot sauce?
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Kathleen, I’m going through hard times right now. And that actually made me laugh. That says something for your statement. Not to go into to much detail on this public blog but my friend took her own life the other day and I’m having a hard time dealing with it. One minute I’m fine, the next you don’t want to know. Anyway, that did make me laugh. I also have to give Clive a big hug for helping through this. I think I’ll upload some more pictures of Glosta to my flickr sight. That will help. Keep me busy. Love ya Kathleen.
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I’m sorry for your loss. That is one of the most difficult things to go through. I wish you well….
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Ah, the efficiencies of government. Gotta love it.
BTW, I’m getting some lobsters tomorrow for me and my friends so I apologize now for adding more paperwork 🙂
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Kathleen, made it through the wake and funeral. Was hard, very hard though. Thanks, for the kind words.
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