{"id":590,"date":"2009-02-09T22:51:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-02-09T22:51:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:51:05","slug":"number-crunching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Number Crunching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had such fun today.\u00a0 Not.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I like the least is preparing financial reports.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered a letter from one of my supporting churches in an envelope where it had been hidden since right before Christmas.\u00a0 In it I was informed that I needed to turn in an financial report for 2008 plus a budget for 2009. It was due on January 31st!\u00a0 Yow!<\/p>\n<p>So I went to my treasurer&#8217;s house so I could get the Whirlwind checkbook.\u00a0 I spent hours inputing data from that into an Excel spread sheet.\u00a0 I keep up with the donation and daily expenses on our visa card, but I don&#8217;t input the checks that are written.<\/p>\n<p>Spent about four hours compiling all that information.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned I had a new Iphone.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve really enjoyed it, but I&#8217;ve been working through over 2,000 contacts in my Outlook database!\u00a0 I had no idea I&#8217;d met that many people!\u00a0 There was some repetition between entries and others that just listed people by their email address=com as a last name.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve probably spent ten hours over the last couple of nights wading through all that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m done, but I&#8217;m certainly further down the road!<\/p>\n<p>Pray for my tired eyes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had such fun today.\u00a0 Not. One of the things I like the least is preparing financial reports. I discovered a letter from one of my supporting churches in an envelope where it had been hidden since right before Christmas.\u00a0 In it I was informed that I needed to turn in an financial report for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}