accounting for boredom

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Some say that money and finances are important.

I’d tend to agree, which is why my utter ignorance of these matters for 11 to 14 months at a time have a problematic edge.

Money is a metaphor and a time travel device. It’s a motor and a gearbox and a lever. I love to earn it and love to spend it even more.

But managing it?

That seems like a task for someone else.

So every 11 to 14 months or so I sit down and become that someone else.

I look at the quickbooks software.

I download all of the transactions and watch video tutorials about how to do things with microsoft excel - an app that I use once per year.

Then?

I spend hours clicking and categorizing and checking and asking questions eventually ending up with a snapshot of my expenses.

(the earnings are much easier to calculate)

Oh my god the classifying and clarifying is the equivalent of cleaning and sorting through the basement and my ‘odd screw and fastener bucket’ only on an extreme endurance scale.

I’ve been at this painful, soul destroyi…