I switch over to Group “A” settings almost as soon as I’m downstairs this morning. Tremor is there in my left leg from the moment I wake, and I know I can’t deal with it today. Today is the day when my wife and I must complete the company accounts for my wife’s business – I received the dreaded email from our accountant yesterday, asking me to send our records to him in order that he can perform the necessary annual audit. Each year at this time, I promise myself that next year will be different – I will keep the books up to date on a weekly or monthly basis, and then there won’t be this mad panic at the last minute as we go through all of the bank statements, desperately trying to remember what the hell it was that we bought for £3.25 on the company debit card 18 months ago. This year, I really mean it!
It doesn’t help matters that I am on my Group “A” settings – tremor control has been pretty good the last couple of days, but my wife thinks I have been a little aggressive and loud (and she’s right), and my patience and diplomacy is on the short side. Luckily my voice is weak and strangulated today, so there’s no point in me losing my rag! Eventually I send my wife out to walk the dog and de-stress, which she does, while I get on with putting some figures into the petty cash spreadsheet. When she returns, we work together and manage to complete all of the purchase ledger entries. It’s almost 6pm, and we agree to call it a day – sales ledger entries can wait until tomorrow!
My wife prepares our evening meal, while I check my email. Polish subtitles for my Interview video have arrived, so I decide to make a start on them. I talk quite a lot of words in the video and, consequently, there are a lot of Polish words, too. It doesn’t help that my Polish friend has not exactly matched the Polish subtitles to the English subtitles – there is a fair amount of guesswork going on here, and it’ll be interesting to see if I have got it right when I ask him to check them. I have subtitled almost half of the 8 minute video, and it’s getting on for 10pm, so I’m calling it a day, having (another) beer, and getting myself off to bed!