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[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I'm sure you know the 15 minutes bit was facetious. Took a pretty long time (might've been weeks) but was actually a lot of fun to write. I'd never done point-of-sale stuff before, but I'd written some really hairy inventory management systems (including some really sophisticated forecasting of inventory needs as much as a year away), so that part of it was a walk in the park.

Since we'll always give perks to annual subscribers, and the quantity of those kinds of subscriptions has gone up enough that there's a lot of manual effort involved, (secretary has to PM the person for their address and shirt size, then send one if/when they reply), it's really about time I tied the subscription process to the online store, so they could select what they want, enter their address, and inventory would be relieved automatically.

That we haven't been doing that is why it came as a surprise to me that inventory was getting really low. Actually, even that was accidental. We've got a new bookkeeper (we go through them like Spinal Tap went through drummers) and when I was in the safe looking for old files she'd need, I noticed only one t-shirt box remaining and it wasn't completely full.

Hopefully this bookkeeper will be a keeper since she definitely knows accounting and bookkeeping very well (turns out to be a scarce skillset within commuting distance of Boogerville) and lives just 10 minutes away.

And she seems to get my tenet of "The day we get the bill is the day we pay the bill". Haven't had one of those around here in a long time!