Ever get the feeling that the more you do, the farther behind you get?

That thought came to me today.

Worked on emails for sponsors for the Festival, started the agenda for the Wednesday meeting, tried to make sense out of some financial reports. Nothing was totally completed.

Had a walking detour when asked to get a key for our meeting place from the person working the shop. A nice walk in the sunshine, a little longer than just going to the Post Office to mail a couple of masks that I had planned. But again, better to exercise in the sun and in fresh air, than just bouncing on my Cellusizer in my home.

That always feels good. Sending off masks to people going to masquerade events far away, knowing they will enjoy wearing  a comfortable mask and get transformed for a night.

Then there was a longer than planned Board meeting relating to looking at a new POS system for the Commonwheel Artists Gallery. Hope we are making the right decision and we asked all the right questions of the presenter. A Co-op functions very differently than a retail store and we really do need an upgraded POS System to become more functional and in step with the way most Galleries are set-up on the financial side.

At the end of the meeting the person who worked the gallery asked me to stop and check to be sure the front door was locked. She said she had pushed on the handle, so I couldn’t imagine it not being locked.

And I almost didn’t stop, but decided to put everyone’s mind at ease and check the door. Shocker! The door was not locked.One can easily see if the cylinder is crossing between the two doors, and there was no silver cylinder visible as I looked at it. And when I turned the handle, the door opened easily.

I the alarm system was on. You just have to shut to door as you leave for it to think it is properly closed. It doesn’t care if the door is or isn’t locked.

But how lucky we were that no one tried to open the door and quickly grabbed some jewelry before help would have arrived!

When I tried to lock it from the outside, it would not lock. And I had set the alarm, so had to run back and turn it off.

Called our maintenance person, and just got a message. He had done some work on the door earlier, but obviously it needed more attention to function properly.

When I did successfully get the door to lock. I unlocked it, and set the alarm, then tried to lock it again and it would not lock! Run back in and turn off the alarm. Gave up on setting the alarm and played with the door some more until I succeeded in locking it again.

Called the next day’s Gallery worker and let them know the problem and that our maintenance person had been informed of the problem and to make sure he shows up.

And not just doing my nightly writing and may even try to get to sleep a bit early and start fresh in the morning for Festival and get some changes done for one, or both of the people’s books I am helping to get published on CreateSpace.

Then there is a meeting for setting up a new web site using WordPress to shut down one in Yahoo! SiteBuilder that I can hardly wait to never have to touch again as it can only be accessed using my Parallels entrance into a very old Windows machine hidden on my Mac.